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Writes of Passage - Reading Travel Writing (Hardcover, New)
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Writes of Passage - Reading Travel Writing (Hardcover, New)
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Edward Said's oft cited claim that Orientalists past and present
have spun imaginary geographies where they sought ground truth, has
launched a plethora of studies of fictive geographies.
Representations often reveal more about the culture of the writer
than that of the people and places written about. Yet the study of
imaginary geographies has raised many questions about Western
writers' abilities to provide representations of foreign places;
there is now much interest in Western mis-representations of places
(imaginary geographies). This text explores the interplay between a
system of "othering" which travellers bring to a place, and the
"real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing
the tensions between the imaginary and real, James Duncan and Derek
Gregory and a team of international contributors focus primarily
upon travellers from the 18th and 19th centuries to pin down the
imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors
focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and
Europe - with the European examples being drawn from Britain,
France and Greece. This book presents a unique contribution from
geographers - with their sensit
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