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Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence
British Writing on Africa, 1855-1902
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Because travel narratives chronicle daily interactions between Europeans and Africans in the literal and figurative region Mary Louise Pratt calls the "contact zone," they provide a rich entry into the development of colonial rule in Africa during the second half of the nineteenth century. Drawing upon literary, historical, anthropological, and feminist approaches to travel writing, this book features analysis of the physical and verbal violence employed by legendary and prolific travelers including Henry M. Stanley, Samuel Baker, and Mary Kingsley, as they sought to gain and keep authority during their journeys. It also presents new perspectives on early Modernist authors Olive Schreiner and Joseph Conrad by linking the violence in their turn-of-the-century fictional travelogues - Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) and Heart of Darkness (1902) - with the rhetoric of humanitarian trusteeship that undergirded the perpetuation of European imperial rule through the 1950s.
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Palgrave Macmillan; October 2003
229 pages; ISBN 9780230510036
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229 pages; ISBN 9780230510036
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Subject categories
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Collections of English literature > Prose (General)
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Literary history and criticism
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Relations to other literatures and countries
- Literary Criticism > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Travel > Essays & Travelogues
- Travel > Africa
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0230510035
9780230510036
9781403905086