Fashioning the Canadian Landscape: Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era. J.I. Little

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
Colin M. Coates
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Travel Writing

scholarly journals Travellers, Connoisseurs, and Britons: Art Commentaries and National Discourse in the Travel Writings of Daniel Defoe and Tobias Smollett

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-375
Author(s):  
Jakub Lipski
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Tobias Smollett ◽  
The South ◽  
National Discourse ◽  
Travel Writings

Abstract This article seeks to explore the interrelationship of two facets characterising eighteenth-century travel writing – art commentaries and national discourse. It is demonstrated that one of the reasons behind the travellers’ repetitious attempts to fashion themselves as connoisseurs was a need to re-affirm their national identity. To this end it offers an analysis of two travel texts coming from two different political moments – Daniel Defoe’s A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–1726), constituting an attempt to read the British as a “great” and prosperous nation after the union of 1707, and Tobias Smollett’s idiosyncratic Travels through France and Italy (1766), shedding light on the British attitude towards the South in the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War and at the outset of the cult of feeling in Britain. It will also be argued that the numerous art commentaries throughout the narratives had a political agenda and supported the national discourse underpinning the texts.

scholarly journals Representations of the East: Orientalism in Emily Eden’s Travel Writing

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Amalie Due Svendsen
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Political Purpose ◽  
Western Hegemony

The publication of Orientalism by Edward W. Said in 1978 gave rise to a new area of studies examining how representations of the East were influenced by an Orientalist discourse, which functioned to maintain and justify Western hegemony. Emily Eden’s letters from her travels in Colonial India are examples of such representations, as they depict her meeting with and perception of the colonial Other. I argue that Eden’s writing displays Orientalism, as she tends to dissociate herself from the Indians through othering, in order to preserve her national identity. However, Eden’s letters are distinguished from other Orientalist travel writing in the sense that she does not articulate justification of Western superiority. Thus, I argue, that the Orientalist discourse demonstrated in Eden’s letters serves the personal purpose of self-definition rather than the political purpose of justifying colonial rule.

de Morais Andrade, Mário Raul (1893–1945)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ann Wells
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mario De Andrade ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

Often called the pope of Brazilian Modernism, Mário de Andrade spearheaded several different phases of the movement, and is credited with introducing the term modernismo in Brazil. From pioneering the experimental first wave of Brazilian Modernism of 1922–26 to sombre reflections on national identity in the mid-1930s–1940s and moving among poetry, short fiction, essays, musicology, travel writing, and the novel Macunaíma (1928), his output is extraordinary in both its volume and its influence. Despite his shifting registers and genres, the major preoccupations of his works remain constant throughout his lengthy career: Brazilian national identity and fraught encounters between different cultures, ethnicities, and worldviews; linguistic experimentation, especially the relationship between writing and orality; and music.

scholarly journals The insecure and the irrational: the southern european other in "The tradition of the castle; or, Scenes in the Emerald Isle" (1824) by Regina Maria Roche

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Begoña Lasa Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The South ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
South Of Europe

A section of "The tradition of the Castle; or Scenes in the Emerald Isle" (1824), a novel by Regina Maria Roche, is set in the European Continent, which enacts a cultural confrontation between Britain and the Southern Other. Additionally, the South of Europe and particularly Spain is employed as a displaced scenario where the British could project their anxieties and accordingly face the conflicts of their own society. By using popular fiction and popular imagery, such as those provided by travel writing and the Gothic, Roche warns her readers about insecurity and irrationality beyond their borders – namely, war and political and religious intolerance – and about mistakes they should not make in order to reinforce their national identity and maintain their status quo.

Australian Travel Writing, 1900–1960

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Johnston
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Geographic Distance ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Prose Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Form ◽  
At Home

Travel writing has been an important form through which Australians learned about their own culture and their place in the world. Indigenous cultures of place and travel, geographic distance from the imperial metropole, and a long history of immigration have each made travel a particularly influential cultural practice. Nonfictional prose narratives, based on actual journeys, have enabled travelers in Australia and from Australia abroad to explore what was distinctive and what was shared with other cultures. These are accessible texts that were widely read, and that sought to educate and entertain their audience. The period from the inauguration of the Australian nation in 1901 to 1960, when distance shrank because of technological innovation and new forms of identity gained ascendance, shows the complex ways in which Australians defined their country and its global contribution. Writing about travel to Britain and other European locations helped authors to refine the Anglophone inheritance and a sense that Britain was Home. Northern-hemisphere travels also made some writers intensely feel their national identity. Participation in global conflicts during this period shifted Australian allegiances, both personal and governmental. At the same time, a new tourist industry encouraged Australians to travel at home, in order to learn more about remote areas and the Asia-Pacific region. Travel writing both abroad and at home reveals how particular forms of emotional allegiance and national identity were forged, reinforced, and maintained. This has been a particularly influential genre for a nation based on colonial migration and indigenous displacement, in which travel and mobility have been crucial.

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