Travel writing and empire : postcolonial theory in transit

Abstract

* Contents * Introduction - Steve Clark * Part 1: Methods * 1. Travel and Unsettlement - Brian Musgrove * 2. Argonauts of Western Pessimism: * Clifford's Ethnographia - John Hutnyk * 3. Lagging Behind: Bhabha, Postcolonial Theory and the Future - John Philips * Part 2: Prefigurations fo Empire * 4. The Discourse of Cannibalism in Early Modern Travel-Writing - Ted Motohashi * 5. Writing Up the Log: The Legacy of Hakluyt - T.J. Cribb * 6. From Classical to Imperial: Changing Visions of Turkey in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lady Elizabeth Craven - Katherine Turner * Part 3: High Imperial Taxonomy and Gender * 7. 'Stifling Pity in a Parent's Breast': * Infanticide and Savagery in late Eighteenth-Century Travel-Writing - Bridgett Orr * 8. Gender and Genre in Nineteenth-Century Travel-Writing: * Leonic D'Aunet and Xavier Marmier - Wendy Mercer * 9. Ecologies of Desire: Nature-Writing as Travelogue - Richard Kerridge * Part 4: Postmodern Travelogue * 10. The Road to Brixton Market: A Post-colonial Travelogue - Gabriel Gbadamosi * 11. Bruce Chatwin: Connoisseur of Exile, Exile as Connoisseur - David Taylor * 12. Transatlantic Crossings: Contemporary British Travel Writing on the US - Steve Clark

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