Economies of representation, 1790-2000 : colonialism and commerce / edited by Leigh Dale and Helen Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dale, Leigh.

Gilbert, Helen, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--History.

Colonies.

Colonies--Commerce--History.

Commerce--Social aspects.

Commerce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 237 pages)

Place of Publication:

Aldershot : Ashgate, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant attention to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' Rather than dealing exclusively with a particular industry or type of industry, the contributors take up the issue of how various economies have been represented in Aboriginal art; in literature by North American, Caribbean, Portuguese, South African, First nation's, Australian, British, and Aboriginal authors; and in a diverse range of writings that includes travel diaries, missionary texts, the findings of the Leprosy Investigation Commission, early medical accounts and media representations of HIV/AIDS. Examining trade in commodities as various as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern Aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the essays reflect the widespread origins of the contributors themselves, who are based throughout the English-speaking world. Taken as a whole, this book contests the commonplace view promoted by some modern economists-that trade in and of itself has a leveling effect, equalising cultures, places, and peoples-demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences in power."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Meditation on yellow : trade and indigeneity in the Caribbean / Peter Hulme

Sites of purchase : slavery, missions, and tourism on two Tanzanian sites / Gareth Griffiths

The bible trade : commerce and Christianity in the Pacific / Anna Johnston

In search of M LePrae : medicine, public debate, politics and the Leprosy Commission to India / Jo Robertson

Coincidences and likely stories : viral exchange in the "origin" of AIDs / Susan Knabe

Junk international : the symbolic drug trade / Brian Musgrove

Redefining the shebeen : the illicit liquor trade in South Africa, c.1950-1983 / Anne Mager

The textuality of tourism and the ontology of resource : an amazing Thai case study / Guy Redden

Text as trading place : Jamaica Kincaid's My brother / Ross Chambers

Raw deals : Kngwarreye and contemporary art criticism / Catherine Howell

Sweet beauty : West Indian travel narratives / Claudia Brandenstein

Women's trading in Fanny Stevenson's The cruise of the "Janet Nichol" / Roslyn Jolly

Fair trade : marketing "The Mohawk princess" / Anne Collett

How queer native narratives interrogate colonialist discourses / Wendy Pearson

New life stories in the new South Africa / Judith Lütge Coullie

Poverty in "Africa" : a textbook case? / Leigh Dale.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786611207991

9781003063421

100306342X

9780367892999

0367892995

9781351159234

1351159232

9781351159241

1351159240

9781351159227

1351159224

9781281207999

1281207993

9780754682462

0754682463

OCLC:

318673209