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Imperial Eyes is a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal work in the study of travel literature and the field of postcolonial criticism. It investigates the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readerships. Focusing on writing about South America and Africa in relation to the political and economic expansion of Europe, Mary Louise Pratt uses readings of particular genres of travel writing to show how they connect with the forms of knowledge and expression which surround them.This long-awaited second edition:• is updated throughout, including a new preface and a fully revised introduction;• contains a new chapter, which reads well-known Latin American texts through the concept of neocoloniality, then takes up the expressive coordinates of late twentieth-century experiences of migration and displacement;• upgrades original illustrations and incorporates new visual materials.This new edition of Imperial Eyes continues to advance the study of imperialism, colonialism and travel writing in fresh directions, whilst retaining the clarity necessary to engage readers new to the topic.

Imperialism. --- European prose literature --- Impérialisme --- Prose européenne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Europe --- Latin America --- Africa --- Amérique latine --- Afrique --- Amérique Latine --- Relations --- Description and travel. --- Historiography. --- Descriptions et voyages --- Historiographie --- Impérialisme --- Prose européenne --- Amérique latine --- Amérique Latine --- Imperialism --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- European literature --- History and criticism --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Description and travel

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Most twentieth-century attempts to develop a linguistic approach to literature rest on the assumption that litera-ture exists by opposition to all other uses of language—an assumption traditionally expressed as an opposition between "poetic" and "ordinary" language. Departing radically from this view, and drawing upon the findings of both sociolinguists and speech act theoreticians, Pratt argues against the notion that literature is formally and functionally distinct from our other verbal activities and points the way toward a unified theory of discourse. She shows how the poetic language argument, expounded by the Russian Formalists and developed by structuralists, fails, first on its own grounds, and second in the face of data from non-literary discourse, especially that presented by Labov in his studies of non-literary narrative; and suggests how recent developments in speech act theory and sociolinguistics correct previous theoretical deficiencies. The hypothesis emerges that a descriptive apparatus which can adequately account for non-literary uses of language will give a satisfactory account of literary discourse as well. An immensely important contribution to literary theory and linguistics.

Literary style. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Poetics. --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Literature --- Style, Literary --- Language and languages --- Poetry --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Style --- Technique --- Philosophy

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In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental disaster and to the new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. She turns to 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction, and social movements, which simultaneously registered neoliberalism's devastating effects and pursued alternate ways of knowing and living. Tracing the workings of colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles and Indigenous mobilizations in the Americas, Pratt analyzes indigeneity both as a key index of coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction, and as a source for alternative modes of thought and being. Ultimately, Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the millennium have catalyzed new forms of world-making and knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic future.

Decolonization --- Postcolonialism --- Latin America --- Civilization. --- Colonization.

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"Es muy productivo pensar en la modernidad como el discurso identitario que sirvió a Europa (al mundo blanco) para asumir el el dominio mundial - afirma Mary Louise Pratt y se pregunta: ¿Qué aspecto habría tenido la modernidad europea si sus campesinos desplazados no hubieran tenido ningún sitio al que ir, es decir, habrían tenido Ital e Irlanda revoluciones agrícolas como las de México y Rusia? ¿Son ideológicamente inocentes metáforas como "flujos migratorios" o "economía informal?" ¿Qué revela una secta religiosa en Cuzco sobre el capitalismo y su afán predatorio?, y también ¿lo combate en alguna medida? ¿Tiene sexo la violencia? ¿Por qué la mitología de guerra habla de los que parten al frente pero no de los que se quedan? El presente ensayo articula cuestiones como estas en un estudio global de América Latina a través de los imaginarios. Cada capítulo se dedica al estudio de un proceso histórico, social y económico desde la colonia hasta la actualidad. La autora sigue prestando atención a la cultura letrada pero también a los deseos, los conflictos y las ansiedades de las sociedades, así como a otros objetos reveladores -mitos de la cultura popular, documentos legales, discursos públicos, pasiones deportivas, prácticas migratorias-. La primera parte del libro reflexiona sobre los grandes relatos que dan coherencia a la historia latinoamericana. La segunda parte rastrea su presencia en textos y obras de los 2000. Y todo está atravesado por las grandes luchas emancipatorias del hemisferio y del planeta: la descolonización, es decir, la lucha por eliminar las jerarquías e idearios neocoloniales; el anticapitalismo, es decir, la lucha contra la explotación de las personas y de la tierra, y el feminismo, es decir, la lucha contra el patriarcado." --Contratapa.

Análisis del discurso. --- Autoras latinoamericanas. --- Civilization. --- Discourse analysis. --- Literatura y sociedad --- Literature and society --- Literature and society. --- Literature. --- Mujeres --- Women authors, Latin American. --- Women --- Condiciones sociales --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- América Latina --- Latin America --- Latin America. --- Civilización. --- En la cultura popular. --- En la literatura. --- In literature. --- In popular culture. --- In popular culture --- In literature --- Women - Latin America - Social conditions --- Latin America - In popular culture --- Literature and society - Latin America --- Latin America - In literature