Travel Writing Revisited1

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  • Édina Pereira Crunfli Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2001n40p127

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2001n40p127

 

In compiling the essays for this volume, Steve Clark’s main concern is a revisionist one. This collection represents a shift away from what is sometimes called the “homoglossic” obsession with Empire present in postcolonial theory, from 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 cross-cultural encounter to simple relations of domination and subordination.” 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 trajectory) as “hyperbolic”.

Biografia do Autor

Édina Pereira Crunfli, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Possui mestrado em Letras (Inglês e Literatura Correspondente) pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2001) e doutorado em Letras (Inglês e Literatura Correspondente) pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2006), com um ano sanduiche na University of Texas at Austin (2005) . mais informações:Currículo Lattes - CNPq.

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2001-01-01

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