- Title
- Frameworks of freedom and fear: authorizing the voice in women's travel writing
- Creator
- Johnson, Patricia Claudette
- Relation
- Travel, Discovery, Transformation p. 101-122
- Relation
- Culture and Civilization 6
- Relation
- http://www.transactionpub.com/title/Travel,-Discovery,-Transformation-978-1-4128-5283-8.html
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Traditions of heroism and discovery have played founding roles in Western travel writing. These are narratives that not only reimagine worlds through language but also provide a site to reimagine oneself-as a form of human expression. They are carefully pieced idiosyncratic works where the author selects experiences, impressions, and expressions to recount them in retrospect. In this, the travel text is a carefully crafted articulation of the gaze from a particular perspective. Mary Louise Pratt refers to ways of seeing as viewing platforms that largely depend upon what (at the time of writing) would be accepted as a legitimite view. She argues that such a view renders a work publishable by relating to, and identifying with, a readership. The legitimate view is a reflection of society and often plays "a crucical role in the political and ideological debates of their time." A focus of this paper is to examine the way in which women's travel texts draw from (so called) "legitimate" Western cosmopolitical views of their time to anchor their narratives.
- Description
- 1
- Subject
- social science; travel; cultural anthropology; literary criticism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064763
- Identifier
- uon:17644
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781412852838
- Language
- eng
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