Travelling Objects [Elektronisk resurs] Modernity and Materiality in British Colonial Travel Literature about Africa
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Hållén, Nicklas, 1983- (författare)
- Publicerad: Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2011
- Engelska 257
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- This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. The author argues that objects are deeply involved in the construction of pre-modern and modern spheres that the travelling subject moves between. The objects in the travel accounts are studied in relation to a contextual background of Victorian commodity and object culture, epitomised by the 1851 Great Exhibition and the birth of the modern anthropological museum. The four analysis chapters investigate the roles of objects in ethnographical and geographical writing, in ideological discussions about the transformative powers of colonial trade, and in narratives about the arrival of the book in the colonial periphery. As the analysis shows, however, objects tend not to behave as they are expected to do. Instead of marking temporal differences, descriptions of objects are typically unstable and riddled with contradictions and foreground the ambivalence that characterises colonial literature.
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- Humanities and the Arts (hsv)
- Languages and Literature (hsv)
- Specific Literatures (hsv)
- Humaniora och konst (hsv)
- Språk och litteratur (hsv)
- Litteraturstudier (hsv)
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- government publication (marcgt)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- travel literature
- Africa
- colonialism
- John Hanning Speke
- Mary Kingsley
- Mary Hall
- Constance Larymore
- Verney Lovett Cameron
- Henry Morton Stanley
- postcolonial theory
- material culture
- colonial discourse
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