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Author Pratt, Mary Louise, 1948-

Title Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation / Mary Louise Pratt.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  940 P916I    Check Shelf
Edition Second edition.
Description xiv, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-268) and index.
Contents Introduction : criticism in the contact zone -- pt. 1. Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- Science, planetary consciousness, interiors -- Narrating the anti-conquest -- Anti-conquest II : the mystique of reciprocity -- Eros and abolition -- pt. 2. The reinvention of América, 1800-50 -- Reinventing América II : the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- Reinventing América/reinventing Europe : Creole self-fashioning -- pt. 3. Imperial stylistics, 1860-2007 -- From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador -- In the neocolony : modernity, mobility, globality.
Subject Europe -- Relations -- Latin America.
Europe -- Relations -- Africa.
Latin America -- Relations -- Europe.
Africa -- Relations -- Europe.
Latin America -- Description and travel.
Africa -- Description and travel.
Latin America -- Historiography.
Africa -- Historiography.
Imperialism.
European prose literature -- History and criticism.
ISBN 9780415438162 hardback alkaline paper
0415438160 hardback alkaline paper
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0415438179 paperback alkaline paper
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