Open AccessTravel Writing Revisited1
Author(s) -
Édina Pereira Crunfli
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
ilha do desterro
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.223
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2175-8026
pISSN - 0101-4846
DOI - 10.5007/2175-8026.2001n40p127
Subject(s) - temptation , expansionism , empire , rhetoric , orientalism , travel writing , simple (philosophy) , literature , philosophy , history , art , sociology , epistemology , law , political science , politics , ancient history , linguistics , theology
In compiling the essays for this volume, Steve Clark’s main concern is a revisionist one. This collection represents\uda shift away from what is sometimes called the “homoglossic” obsession with Empire present in postcolonial theory,\udfrom Edward Said’s influential Orientalism (1978), through Mary Louise Pratt’s Imperial Eyes (1992), to David Spurr’s The Rhetoric of Empire (1993). This book resists the temptation to think in terms of “the reduction of\udcross-cultural encounter to simple relations of domination and\udsubordination.” Challenging Pratt, Clark describes her thesis (of travel writing producing the rest of the world for European readerships at particular points in Europe’s expansionist\udtrajectory) as “hyperbolic”