Europe - Travel Essays & Descriptions, Africa -Travel, Africa & the Middle East - Travel Essays & Descriptions
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Overview
This book shows how the writings of travellers in Africa during the era of Victorian exploration tell us more about nineteenth century Britain than about Africa. The author places the narratives in their historical and cultural context, and examines how racial images may be affected by social change and literary form.Editorials
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Through detailed examination of British accounts of African eating habits, of the reported effects of Africa upon the objects travellers carried with them, and of Stanley's controversial Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, deep anxieties over Victorian era British social change and cultural identity are examined. Youngs argues that such concerns must be assessed in any discussion on the construction and transmission of racial stereotypes. The book closes with a consideration of Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a travel narrative, and contrasts Marlow's Congo with Stanley's. Distributed by St. Martin's. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
December 28, 1994
Publisher
Manchester ; Manchester University Press ; c1994.
Pages
235
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780719039690