Travelling in Different Skins
Title | Travelling in Different Skins PDF eBook |
Author | Dúnlaith Bird |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2012-07-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199644160 |
Dúnlaith Bird argues that vagabondage - a physical and textual elaboration of gender identity in motion - emerges as a totemic concept in European women's travel writing from 1850. For travellers including Olympe Audouard, Isabella Bird, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Freya Stark,vagabondage is a means of pushing out the physical, geographical, and textual parameters by which 'women' are defined. Travelling in Different Skins explores the negotiations of European women travel writers from 1850-1950 within the traditionally male-oriented discourses of colonialism and Orientalism. Moving from historical overview to close textual reading, it traces a complex web of tacit collusion and gleeful defiance. These women improvise access to the highly gendered 'imaginative geography' of the Orient. Tactics including cross-dressing, commerciality, and the effacement of their male companions are used to carve out a space for their unconventional and often sexually-hybrid constructions. Using a composite theoretical basis of the later critical work of Judith Butler and Edward Said, this comparative study of British and French colonial empires and gender norms draws out the nuances in these travellers' constructions of gender identity. Women travel writers are shown to play an important role in the legacy of sexual experimentation and self-creation in the Orient, traditionally associated with male writers including Gide and Pierre Loti, and now ripe for critical re-evaluation. This study demonstrates how these women use lived experiences of restriction and negotiation to elaborate advanced theories of motion and gender construction, presaging the concerns of twenty-first century feminism and post-colonialism.
The Great Lone Land a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by Capt. W. F. Butler
Title | The Great Lone Land a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by Capt. W. F. Butler PDF eBook |
Author | William Francis Thomas Butler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1873 |
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The Great Lone Land: a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America ... With Illustrations and Route Map. Second Edition
Title | The Great Lone Land: a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America ... With Illustrations and Route Map. Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Sir William Francis Butler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1873 |
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Travellers' Health
Title | Travellers' Health PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Dawood |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2012-09-27 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0199214166 |
Travellers' Health offers practical advice on preventing and coping with every health problem imaginable. Authoritatively written by over 70 experts, this book is essential reading for all travellers worldwide.
Travel Magazine
Title | Travel Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 730 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN |
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846
Title | Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 PDF eBook |
Author | Reuben Gold Thwaites |
Publisher | |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Mississippi River Valley |
ISBN |
Parliamentary Papers
Title | Parliamentary Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 978 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Bills, Legislative |
ISBN |