Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:35:43 -0400
From: santbrown-AT-lweb.net (J Brown & P Sant)
Subject: Re: Travel Writing and Postcolonialism?


Greetings all,

I've been off this list for a while, but it occurs to me that some
excellent work is indeed being done by new scholars in the field. At the
risk of sounding as though I'm sounding my own trumpet, I'd like to suggest
a forthcoming, self-reflexive article which sensitively canvasses some of
the problems - and possible solutions? - in the area by Joel Martineau,
"Directing the Gaze on Haida Gwaii: How Haida Watchmen are Reconstructing
Indigeneity," in James N. Brown and Patricia M. Sant (ed) _Indigeneity:
Construction and Re/Presentation_, Commack, NY: Nova Science. (This volume
of critical essays is scheduled for publication before the end of the
year.)

Cheers,

James

>The discussion on Everest sparked some thoughts I'd been mulling over. I'm
>interested in travel narratives, in part because I am working on an account
>of my own travels and am wondering, as I try to write it, how to write
>something like an anti-imperial travel narrative. It's such a colonial form
>that I sometimes wonder if it's possible at all for someone from an
>imperialist country to write anti-colonial travel narratives about
>traveling the (post)colonial world. Generally, though, I think (or I hope)
>it must be possible, though the fact that the travel narrative has often
>supported colonialism makes it a difficult endeavor. And so I'm curious if
>anyone is aware of anti-imperial travel narratives, or narratives that at
>least try to critique colonialism/imperialism and the role travel and
>tourism play in imperialism. Because I've written about Victorian travel
>narratives and colonialism, I'm fairly up on the criticism of colonialist
>travel narratives, though I'm always open to new suggestions on that front
>as well. But I'm really more interested in actual travel narratives. The
>one travel book I've read that does much of this is Pico Iyer's "Video
>Night in Kathmandu," but there must be more out there. I'm having no luck
>in the travel section of my local bookstore, but that's hardly surprising.
>I'd be grateful for any suggestions and/or discussion, since it would be
>useful both to my creative and my critical projects!
>
>Miriam
>
>
>Miriam Schacht (mschacht-AT-unm.edu)
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>"Imagination is the real world, all the rest is bad television."
>(Gerald Vizenor)
>
>
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