British Narratives of Exploration: Case Studies on the Self and Other (Empires in Perspective)
Frederic Regard
This collection of essays brings together the best of modern scholarship by international specialists in empire studies. Focusing on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries, the essays investigate how the early explorers' sense of self was destabilised by encounters with the Other. Close textual criticism shows how writers created characterisations of Self and Other through rhetoric, narrative devices and metaphors. Their encounters with the other brought about a destabilizing communicational exchange, whereby identities were redefined and positions redistributed. In the 'contact zone', same and other, ego and alter, needed to adjust their signifying and communicational practices, and came to realize that identity, both individual and collective, is unfixed and transformational.
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Год:
2009
Издательство:
Pickering & Chatto Ltd
Язык:
english
Страницы:
247
ISBN 10:
185196620X
Файл:
PDF, 1.21 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2009