Imperial Eyes: Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturation
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Book Overview
Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long-awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0415060958
ISBN13:9780415060950
Release Date:February 1992
Publisher:Routledge
Length:257 Pages
Weight:1.12 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Fantastic book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Vituperative, scathing truths about the world they don't teach you in high school make this an excellent book for anyone who likes to uncover the scandal beneath social, economic, and political realities formed in history. Pratt's poignant and stinging language drives home every point in a very sophistocated and flowing discourse. If you haven't taken a college course in Sociology, Africana, or Latin American Studies or similar, this language may be new to you but Pratt makes it as easy as watching an on-the-edge-of-your-seat sports match.
Seminal book in the field
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
While I understand this book presents a challenge to the reader, it is a seminal book in several fields: Mary Louise Pratt's prose is clear for a literary theorist and her vocabulary/jargon is appropriate to the subject. _Imperial Eyes_ takes the reader through several stages of European travel writing, and the effects these works have upon European representations and constructions of the "other." Pratt's strongest arguments deal with Mary Kingsley and Africa, in my personal opinion, but her work on Linneaus is important and relevant to history and to identity studies as well. As a professor, I would assign this book to an upper-division undergraduate course, and would expect students to have the ability to grapple with her argument and her prose. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the formation of modern European identity, the ideological underpinnings of colonialism, and the construction of the "other."
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