Views on Europe: Gender Historical and Postcolonial Perspectives on Journeys (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783110738780)

The history of travel has long been constructed and described almost exclusively as a history of "European", male mobility, without, however, explicitly making the gender and　whiteness　of the travellers a topic. The anthology takes this as an occasion to focus on journeys to Europe　that gave "non-Europeans" the opportunity to glance at "Europe" and to draw a picture of it by themselves. So far,　little attention has been paid to the questions with which attributes these travellers endowed "Europe" and its people, which similarities and differences they observed and which idea(s) of "Europe" they produced. The focus is once again on "Europe", but not as the starting point for conquests or journeys.　From a postcolonial and gender historical view, the anthology's contributions rather juxtapose (self-)representations of "Europe" with perspectives that move in a field of tension between agreement, contradiction and oscillation.

Author: LILLI Riettiens
ISBN-10: 3110738783
ISBN-13: 9783110738780
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2022
Pages: 171
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d