Imperial Eyes
Travel Writing and Transculturation
2. Auflage
Erschienen am 26. September 2007
296 Seiten
978-0-203-93293-3 (ISBN)
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Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.
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Mary Louise Pratt is Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and literatures at New York University, and formerly Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She has published widely in the areas of Latin American literature and society, comparative literature, gender studies, and the cultural study of colonialism and imperialism. She was president of the Modern Language Association in 2003
Inhalt
1st edition contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
- Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone
Part I Science and sentiment, 1750-1800
- Science, planetary consciousness, interiors
- Narrating the anti-conquest
- Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity
- Eros and Abolition
Part II The reinvention of América, 1800-50
- Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of América
- Reinventing América II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales
- Reinventing América/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning
Part III Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980
- From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador
Notes
Index
List of Illustrations
Preface
- Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone
Part I Science and sentiment, 1750-1800
- Science, planetary consciousness, interiors
- Narrating the anti-conquest
- Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity
- Eros and Abolition
Part II The reinvention of América, 1800-50
- Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of América
- Reinventing América II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales
- Reinventing América/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning
Part III Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980
- From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador
Notes
Index
