Views on Europe : gender historical and postcolonial perspectives on journeys / edited by Lilli Riettiens, Elke Kleinau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kleinau, Elke, editor.

Riettiens, Lilli, editor.

Series:

Studies in the History of Education and Culture / Studien Zur Bildungs- und Kulturgeschichte

Studies in the History of Education and Culture / Studien Zur Bildungs- und Kulturgeschichte ; v.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

The history of travel has long been constructed and described almost exclusively as a history of "European", male mobility, without, however, explicitly making the gender and whiteness of the travellers a topic. The anthology takes this as an occasion to focus on journeys to Europe that gave "non-Europeans" the opportunity to glance at "Europe" and to draw a picture of it by themselves. So far, little attention has been paid to the questions with which attributes these travellers endowed "Europe" and its people, which similarities and differences they observed and which idea(s) of "Europe" they produced. The focus is once again on "Europe", but not as the starting point for conquests or journeys. From a postcolonial and gender historical view, the anthology’s contributions rather juxtapose (self-)representations of "Europe" with perspectives that move in a field of tension between agreement, contradiction and oscillation.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction: Views on Europe. Gender Historical and Postcolonial Perspectives on Journeys

Fictional and Real Travellers from Asia in Enlightenment Europe: Describing European Habits and Culture

Suat Derviş, Journalist, Novelist and Feminist: Texts Written in Germany and Texts about Germany

"This Demolished Church was Equally the Face of Contemporary Europe" - Configurations and Representations of Twentieth Century Europe by Three Indian Travellers

The Empire Writes Back. Views on Europe from Hispanic America in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

The Inverted Mirror: Brazilian Hybridity and European Picturesqueness in Nísia Floresta's Travel Writing

The Minister, the Bride and the School Girl: English Canadians in Europe, 1860s-1880s

Family Album and Failure in Louise Bryant's and Martha Gellhorn's Travel Accounts in Russia

Beyond Geography: Europe as a Journey in Dumitru Tsepeneag's Hotel Europa

List of authors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Riettiens, Lilli Views on Europe

ISBN:

3-11-073496-6