Mexican Travel Writing: The Legacy of Foreign Travel Writers in Mexico, or Why Mexicans Say They Don't Write Travel Books

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thea Pitman
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Foreign Travel ◽  
Travel Books ◽  
Travel Writers

scholarly journals Image of Oriental Turkmen Female Travelees in the Nineteenth Century Western Travel Writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Ahmad Gholi ◽  
Masoud Ahmadi Mosaabad
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Travel Books ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
Great Game ◽  
Cultural Baggage

One of crucial issues which Western travel writers in their journeys to the Orient specifically in the height of colonialism in the nineteenth has addressed is Oriental women. Entrapped and conditioned by their cultural baggage and operating on the basis of Orientalist discourse, they have mostly presented a reductive image of their Oriental female travelees as exotic, seductive, sensual, secluded, and suppressed, in lieu of entering into a cultural dialogue and painting their picture sympathetically and respectfully. To convey their lasciviousness, they have expatiated on Oriental harems and to display their oppression foregrounded their veil and ill-treatment by their allegedly insensitive and callus menfolks. In the same period in the context of the Great Game the politically oriented Western travel writers in particular the British ones set out on a voyage to Central Asia where they encountered ethnic Turkmen. Besides gathering intelligence, the travel writers devoted considerable pages to their Turkmen female travelees as well. But their images in these travel books have not been subject to rigorous scholarly scrutiny. In this regard, the current articles in two sections seeks to redress this neglect by shedding light on how these travel writers portrayed their Turkmen female travelees in seemingly unorientalist fashion in the first part and how explicitly in Orientalist tradition in the second part. 

Picturesque Burma: British Travel Writing 1890–1914

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Keck
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Effective Resistance ◽  
The Third ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Travel Writers

With the end of effective resistance to British rule after the Third Anglo-Burmese War, Burma experienced significant economic growth, which led to larger numbers of foreign travellers going there. This article traces the publications of three travel writers – Mrs Ernst (Alice) Hart, R. Talbot Kelley and V. C. Scott O'Connor – by investigating the ways in which they relied on the concept of ‘picturesque’ to understand Burmese landscapes.

scholarly journals EXOTICISM IN GERTRUDE BELL'SPERSIAN PICTURES

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Ghaderi ◽  
Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Travel Books ◽  
Asymmetrical Power

Victorian travelers in colonial contextsencountered differences in landscape, mores and manners, society, politics and culture, among other things, and registered their responses to the places visited in their published travel books for the home audience. Postcolonial critics contend that exoticism, i.e., a Western traveler's response to and description of the differences encountered in the context of travel, was deeply informed by the asymmetrical power relation between the representer/colonizer and the represented/colonized. As a result, these critics argue, exoticism in colonial travel writing was appropriative since it tended to construct the dichotomy of self/other in such a way as to justify imperial interventions in other countries (Forsdick, “Sa(L)Vaging Exoticism” 30–34; Said 1–28). As Graham Huggan rightly argues, difference of the colonial other in its various aspects was denigrated and dismissed as exotic when “translated into the master code of empire,” since it superimposed “a dominant way of seeing, speaking and thinking onto marginalised peoples” (24).

Reflection of Ideology and Politics in Travel Writing

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-104
Author(s):  
Xenia Liashuk
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
John Steinbeck ◽  
Travel Books ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Depiction Of Politics ◽  
The U.S

The chapter focuses on the ways in which politics and ideology are incorporated into travel writing. The analysis of two travel books involving the U.S. American and the Soviet Russian cultures, namely Little Golden America (One-Storied America, 1937) by Soviet humorists Ilf and Petrov, and A Russian Journal (1948) by American novelist John Steinbeck, reveals the two factors of importance influencing the depiction of politics and ideology in travel writing, namely the authors' identity including their personal ideologies and the polarity of bilateral political and ideological relations between the nations concerned. These two factors predetermine the specific issues of political and ideological nature described and explained in travel writing and the angle and character of their interpretation and evaluation by the authors.

D. H. Lawrence’s Travel Writing: Concept of Nudity and Sexuality with a Difference

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhik Mukherjee ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thin Line ◽  
Travel Books ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Modes Of Life ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
True Relationship

In that he spent most of his life outside Britain, D. H. Lawrence often seems the least British of the British Modernists. His interest in and willingness to be influenced by Italy, Sicily, the American Southwest, Mexico and Australia can be easily explored in his travel books. Whereas his novels are too didactic in nature, his philosophies get naturally matured as he travels and they are expressed very succinctly in his travel writing. In various parts of his four travel books, namely Twilight in Italy (1916), Sea and Sardinia (1921), Morning in Mexico (1927), Sketches of Etruscan Places (1932) Lawrence depicts the difference between nudity and nakedness and how they influence him. The other contrast here is between art and life, with the nude standing for art and nakedness for life with the section on Florence and the art there. The essay focuses on how Lawrence views art differently when actually experiencing these works himself during his travels. I show different phases in his response to nudity/nakedness as shown in his four travel books and what accounts for these changes. The thesis is the examination of Lawrence’s belief that the touch of amateurism and primitivism can inject new freshness into our lives and can salvage them from the clutches of habit, and the mechanized civilisation. Nudity and sexuality as part of primitive modes of life can balance and heal what Freud termed the discontents of civilisation. Situated on the thin line between nudity and sexuality, D.H. Lawrence’s travel writing recounts man’s true relationship with the cosmos. And finally, the paper shows some misunderstanding on the part of the second wave feminists on his representation of masculinity in nakedness.

scholarly journals The Greek Voyage

Perceptions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Tzumakaris
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Greek Life ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Early English ◽  
Intensive Course ◽  
Classical Knowledge ◽  
Of Greece

During the spring semester of 2018, I took History 4497, a writing intensive course with an emphasis on European travel writing. My research focused on English travel writers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries voyaging to Greece. In my analysis, I examine the interactions early English travel writers experienced with the peoples of Greece. These interactions not only allow for an interesting first-hand insight of Greek life but provide reflections of the authors and their culture. Major themes discussed in my analysis include the anti-Greek bias, civilization versus barbarism, and non-elitist perception. I came to the conclusion that while formally-educated English travel writers’ perceptions of Greece were influenced greatly by the negative biases of their teachings, Thomas Dallam, an English organ-builder with no classical knowledge nor formal education, experienced his Greek voyage with a radically different perspective.

“Spellbinding Portugal: Two British Women’s Travel Voices”

2018 ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Maria Zulmira Castanheira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Women's Travel ◽  
The Way

A genre prone to the thematization of cultural difference, travel writing has, in recent decades, attracted great attention within the area of the Social Sciences and Humanities and gained the respect of both academics and critics. Travel writers are mediator fgures who, through their literary constructs, resulting from their experience of mobility and confrontation with alterity, may shape and circulate positive ideas about foreign cultural realities, thus facilitating openness to difference, empathy, acceptance, understanding, admiration. This article analyses Sybille Bedford’s and Brigid Brophy’s representation of Portugal, paying attention to the authors’ focus on the natural and built landscapes and the way they seek out what they considered to be unique to this Iberian country, thus promoting an image of it as a spellbinding place, charming and exotic, worth the journey.

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