| Travel Narratives in Dialogue: Contesting Representations of Nineteenth-Century Peru Contributor(s): Alvarez-Detrell, Tamara (Editor), Paulson, Michael G. (Editor), Butler, Shannon Marie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820495204 ISBN-13: 9780820495200 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $96.28 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | South America - General - History - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 918.504 |
| LCCN: 2008003347 |
| Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Physical Information: 124 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Travel Narratives in Dialogue examines nineteenth-century imperialist travelogues written about Peru and examines Peruvian writers of the same period who fashioned their own travelogues as protests against how imperialist writers denigrated Peru and Peruvian culture. This study exposes the dialogic nature of travelogues in the Bakhtinean sense and underscores how the travel-writing subjects produce texts that serve as fora of struggle, coercion, control, and contestation depending on the personal, imperialist, nationalist, and proto-feminist agendas the writers supported. Travel narratives examined include those written by J. J. von Tschudi, Madeline Vinton Dahlgren, Flora Tristan, Juan Bustamante, Manuel A. Fuentes, and Jos Manuel Vald z y Palacios. |