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The colonizer abroad : American writers on foreign soil, 1846-1912
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Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Taylor & Francis,

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Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.


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Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.


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The colonizer abroad : American writers on foreign soil, 1846-1912
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Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.


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And the monkey learned nothing
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ISBN: 1609384504 9781609384500 9781609384494 1609384490 Year: 2016 Publisher: Iowa City

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"Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. And the Monkey Learned Nothing contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary and without a goal, Lutz explores the Iranian love of poetry, the occupying Chinese army in Tibet, the amputee beggars in Cambodia, the hill tribes on Vietnam's Chinese border, the sociopathic monkeys of Bali, the dangerous fishermen and conmen of southern India, the salt flats of Uyumi in Peru, and floating hotels in French Guiana, introduces you to an Uzbeki prodigy in the market of Samarkand, an Azeri rental car clerk in Baku, guestworkers in Dubai, a military contractor in Jordan, cucuruchos in Guatemala, a Pentecostal preacher in rural El Salvador, a playboy in Nicaragua, employment agents in Singapore specializing in Tamil workers, prostitutes in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, international bankers in Belarus, a teacher in Havana, border guards in Botswana, tango dancers in Argentina, a cook in Suriname, a juvenile thief in Uruguay, voters in Guyana, doctors in Tanzania and Lesotho, scary poker players in Moscow, reed dancers in Swaziland, young camel herders in Tunisia, Romanian missionaries in Macedonia, and musical groups in Mozambique. With an eye out for both the sublime and the ridiculous, Lutz falls, regularly, into the instant intimacy of the road with random strangers"--


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Le parfum des voyages : chroniques et reportages (1887-1913)
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ISBN: 9782221198384 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris : R. Laffont,

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Célèbre pour ses écrits de fiction, Rudyard Kipling, prix Nobel de littérature 1907, fut aussi le héros-narrateur d'un grand nombre de reportages et sûrement le plus excentrique écrivain-voyageur de son temps. Ce volume, composé de plusieurs recueils de reportages et de chroniques destinés aux deux publications indiennes auxquelles il collabora entre 1882 et 1889, révèle une part méconnue de son oeuvre à laquelle il se consacra dès sa jeunesse. Les Lettres de marque racontent un voyage au Rajputana en 1887. Kipling y déploie sa verve inimitable, celle que connaissent et apprécient les lecteurs des Simples contes des collines, avec, en supplément, une touche de réalisme souvent très cru. Les Lettres du Japon sont issues d'une exploration quasi ethnologique de l'envoyé spécial du Pioneer au pays du Soleil-Levant, lors du long périple qui le ramène en Angleterre à l'automne 1889. Kipling fera aussi étape en Amérique. Dans la série de chroniques baptisées Lettres aux Américains, il rivalise d'impertinence avec le Dickens des Notes américaines, composées un demi-siècle auparavant. Enfin, le recueil publié en France en 1922 sous le titre Lettres de voyage rassemble trois " dossiers " où se mêlent les impressions de l'écrivain relatives aux différents pays qu'il a traversés depuis son départ de l'Inde et au voyage aussi politique que touristique qu'il a effectué avec son épouse en 1913 sous le soleil d'Égypte. C'est un Kipling affranchi des idées reçues sur le colonialisme qui s'exprime dans ces textes, démentant ainsi la légende du " chantre de l'impérialisme britannique ". Si " l'Est et l'Ouest ne se rencontreront jamais ", l'un et l'autre ont pourtant beaucoup à se dire. [source éditeur]


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American travel writers, 1850-1915
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Year: 1998 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Gale Research

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American travel writers, 1776-1864
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Year: 1997 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Gale Research

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A truthful impression of the country : British and American travel writing in China, 1880 - 1949.
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ISBN: 0472111973 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan press

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Richard Wright's travel writings : new reflections
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ISBN: 1578063477 Year: 2001 Publisher: Jackson University press of Mississippi

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American travellers in Liverpool
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ISBN: 1800343469 1800346719 9781800346710 1789622042 9781789622041 Year: 2020 Publisher: Liverpool

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Many nineteenth-century American travellers left fascinating accounts of their experiences in Liverpool, which was often their first port of call in Britain. This book collects excerpts from their stories, along with an updated introduction and suggestions for further reading, exploring the rich variety of cultural contacts between the two nations.

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