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Travelling objects :
Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa
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- Hållen, Nicklas, 1983- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för språkstudier,Concurrences
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- Hansson, Heidi, Professor (preses)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för språkstudier,Inst för språkstudier, Umeå universitet
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- Helgesson, Stefan, Professor (preses)
- Department of English, Stockholm University,Engelska institutionen, Stockholms universitet
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- Youngs, Tim, Professor (opponent)
- Nottingham Trent University
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- ISBN 9789174592757
- Umeå : Umeå University. Department of Language Studies, 2011
- Engelska 262 s.
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Serie: Studier i språk och litteratur från Umeå universitet ; 15
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Serie: Umeå Studies in Language and Literature ; 15
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Abstract
Ämnesord
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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.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturstudier (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Literatures (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- travel literature
- Africa
- modernity
- materiality
- material objects
- things
- commodity form
- commodity culture
- postcolonialism
- Homi Bhabha
- museums
- exhibitions
- colonialism
- geography
- space
- trade
- ethnography
- the book
- ambivalence
- subject-object relations
- fetishism
- John Speke
- Verney Cameron
- Henry Stanley
- Mary Kingsley
- Ewart Grogan
- Constance Larymore
- Mary Hall
- English language
- Engelska språket
- Literature
- litteraturvetenskap
- English literature
- Comparative literature
- Historia
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