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American Travel and Empire, Hardback Book

American Travel and Empire Hardback

Edited by Susan (Department of American Studies, Kings College London) Castillo

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In this collection leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire.

The term 'American' is used here in the hemispheric sense and 'American travel writing' includes both writing about America by visitors and writings by Americans abroad.

The contributors are recognized specialists in different periods of American literature and travel writing.

The essays explore the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized territories shaped perceptions of these areas; the transmission images and metaphors between colony and metropole; the othering of non-scribal cultures as 'primitive' or 'wild'; the deployment of representations of encounters between European and other cultures in order to critique or reinforce European or American values and cultural practices; the tacit assumptions of cultural or economic hegemony underlying U.S. or European travel writing.

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