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Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies; this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the genre. It combines detailed evaluations of major contemporary models of analysis--new historicism, travelling theory, and post-colonial studies--with a series of specific studies detailing the complicity of the genre with a history of violent incursion. These explore: "Othering" discourses--of cannibalism and infanticide; the production of colonial knowledge--geographic, medicinal, zoological; the role of sexual anxiety in the construction of the gendered travelling body; the interplay between imperial and domestic spheres; reappropriation of alien discourse by indigenous cultures. The book resists the temptation to think in terms of a simple monolithic Eurocentrism and offers a more complex reading of texts produced before, during and after periods of imperial ascendancy. In doing so, it provides a more nuanced account of the hegemonic functions of travel-writing.

Engelse reisbeschrijvingen --- Engelse reisverhalen --- English travelers' writings --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialisme --- Postkolonialisme --- Reisbeschrijving --- Reisbeschrijvingen [Engelse ] --- Reisverhalen [Engelse ] --- Récit de voyage --- Récits de voyage anglais --- Travel -- Authorship --- Travel writing --- Travelers' writings [English ] --- British --- Postcolonialism. --- Travel writing. --- Travelers' writings, English. --- Travelers' writings, English --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Travel --- Authorship --- English literature --- British (Nation) --- British - Travel. --- Recits de voyages --- Recits de voyages anglais

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This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book - The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (usually known simply as Robinson Crusoe) - to take in the far less well-known Farther Adventures and the almost unread Serious Reflections, beyond Defoe's texts, to their re-writing and adaptation and beyond the Atlantic and South American context to an Asian and Pacific context. The essays consider both how Asia is represented in the books (in terms of politics, economics, religion), and how the book has been received, adapted, and taught, particularly in Asian contexts.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Comparative literature --- Asian literature --- History of civilization --- niet-westerse cultuur --- etnologie --- cultuur --- literatuur --- Asia

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Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Comparative literature --- Asian literature --- History of civilization --- niet-westerse cultuur --- etnologie --- cultuur --- literatuur --- Asia --- In literature.