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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Loui Pratt

Authors: Mary Loui Pratt
ISBN-13: 9780415438179, ISBN-10: 0415438179
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2007
Edition: 2nd Edition

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Author Biography: Mary Loui Pratt

Mary Louise Pratt is Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and literatures at New York University, and formerly Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She has published widely in the areas of Latin American literature and society, comparative literature, gender studies, and the cultural study of colonialism and imperialism. She was president of the Modern Language Association in 2003

Book Synopsis

Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.

Table of Contents

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Preface
1Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone1
Pt. IScience and sentiment, 1750-1800
2Science, planetary consciousness, interiors15
3Narrating the anti-conquest38
4Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprociry69
5Eros and abolition86
Pt. IIThe reinvention of America, 1800-50
6Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America111
7Reinventing America II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales144
8Reinventing America/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning172
Pt. IIIImperial stylistics, 1860-1980
9From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador201
Notes229
Index251

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