Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies. This book provides an introduction to the genre, particularly to its dynamics of power and representa
This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender
The essays collected here focus on issues of colonialism/post-colonialism, empire, identity, culture, spectacle, pilgrimage, map theory, narrative theory, diasp
Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies and literary criticism. This is a comprehensive introduction to the genre, to its dynamics of power an
The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their co