EAN: 9781433105975

IN-BETWEEN TWO WORLDS GEBUNDEN

Fourteen essays provide a challenging outlook on narratives by women explorers and travellers
from five different continents  spanning nearly one century from 1850 to 1945. The map thus
drawn enables one to revisit  restore  and reassess the content and the originality of these
narratives by women. The essays are relevant to the fields of travel writing and gender studies
and all draw from referential contemporary theoretical and critical works (Michel Foucault 
Homi Bhabha  Edward Said  Roland Barthes  Michel de Certeau  Gilles Deleuze  Sara Mills  Kristi
Siegel  and Jane Robinson). The main interest and originality of the volume result from the
perspectives adopted by the different authors. The text-oriented analyses rely on close reading
thus definitely providing accurate and perceptive critical insights into the narratives. Such
perspective precludes erasing the differential features characterizing each geographical space
and each travelling subject. It also moves away fromany temptation at creating a naturalized
mythical image of these women.

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