Postcolonial Travel Writing and Postcolonial Theory

• Main Author: Edwards, Justin D.
• Other Authors: Clarke, R, English Studies
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
• Subjects: Travel writing; postcolonial literature; postcolonial theory; Traveller; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25841; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316597712.003; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-postcolonial-travel-writing/C6FEA8EEF710E8B4F21FA33B3682C314; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/25841/1/Postcolonial%20Travel%20Final%20Version.pdf

First paragraph: In recent scholarship, the convergence of the words postcolonial, travel and writing has led to a series of debates that revolve around, but are not limited to, the representation of otherness, the power of speaking of and for a foreign culture, as well as the hierarchies embedded i...