Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing
|
Buy Now
My Mule Drinks From the Ganges (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,008
Discovery Miles 10 080
|
|
My Mule Drinks From the Ganges (Paperback)
Series: Irish Research Series
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
As with its European neighbours, Ireland is home to a number of
festivals which celebrate the art of travel writing, the annual
Lismore Festival of Travel Writing in County Waterford for example.
The modern genre of travel writing as practiced by Irish writers is
very different to much of what passed for travel writing in
Ireland, until very recently. In the colonial context that defined
Irish history and culture prior to the last century, travel writing
was frequently viewed an adjunct to the all-knowing imperial gaze.
It was an element in that tradition which sought to know, to define
and to categorise peoples and their places. It was part of the
ordering process that was the colonial project. It was a
celebration of knowing which we now realise was frequently a
charade. In many cases, as with the travel accounts produced by
members of the colonial class in Eastern Europe or Asia, these
descriptions of other peoples and cultures were produced in
accordance with an inherited and (sometimes-exoticised) tradition
or episteme as littered with cliche and stereotype. In many cases
the writers or hobbyists in question knew next to nothing about the
people they were describing; they frequently had only the vaguest
knowledge concerning the cultures or languages that they were
classifying . This book usurps this tradition. While the vast
majority of Irish travelogues as written in the past two centuries
were written in English, this travelogue was written (and published
originally) in Irish before later being translated and re-shaped in
English .
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.