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Views on Europe: gender historical and postcolonial perspectives on journeys

The history of travel has long been constructed and described almost exclusively as a history of "European", male mobility, without, however, explicitly making the gender and whiteness of the travellers a topic. The anthology takes this as an occasion to focus on journeys to Europe that ga...

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Other Authors: Riettiens, Lilli (Editor, Contributor) , Kleinau, Elke (Editor, Contributor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Berlin/München/Boston Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2022
Series:Studies in the history of education and culture volume 1
In: Studies in the history of education and culture (volume 1)

Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1515/9783110734966
Subjects:
Europe > Civilization
Europe > Description and travel
Europe - Civilisation
Europe - Descriptions et voyages
Europe
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte
Reiseliteratur
Nationalcharakter
Europabild
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Author Notes:ed. by Lilli Riettiens and Elke Kleinau
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Views on Europe. Gender Historical and Postcolonial Perspectives on Journeys
  • Fictional and Real Travellers from Asia in Enlightenment Europe: Describing European Habits and Culture
  • Suat Derviş, Journalist, Novelist and Feminist: Texts Written in Germany and Texts about Germany
  • “This Demolished Church was Equally the Face of Contemporary Europe” – Configurations and Representations of Twentieth Century Europe by Three Indian Travellers
  • The Empire Writes Back. Views on Europe from Hispanic America in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
  • The Inverted Mirror: Brazilian Hybridity and European Picturesqueness in Nísia Floresta’s Travel Writing
  • The Minister, the Bride and the School Girl: English Canadians in Europe, 1860s–1880s
  • Family Album and Failure in Louise Bryant’s and Martha Gellhorn’s Travel Accounts in Russia
  • Beyond Geography: Europe as a Journey in Dumitru Tsepeneag’s Hotel Europa
  • List of authors

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