Mackenthun / Nicolas / Wodianka Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8309-8567-9
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Deutsch, 316 Seiten

Ever since the Gilgamesh epic and Homer's Odyssey, stories of travel and adventure, whether 'fictional', 'factual', or a mix of both, have been crucial to the collective self-definition of human societies. Since the early modern period and the increased frequency of cross-cultural encounters, the literary motif of the journey became a significant ingredient of colonial imagination. The ideology of adventure, crucial to many works of literature, pervades Western discourses of economic expansion and scientific discovery, while anthropologists, seeking to document indigenous story traditions, encountered an oral archive not unlike that of their own. Travelistic texts (by 'culture heroes', explorers, colonial agents, missionaries, scientific explorers, refugees, and foreign visitors) often provide the semantic repertoire for descriptions of 'exotic' spaces and populations. The knowledge gained through physical encounters during journeys to foreign lands often functions to revise inherited ideas about 'cultures' - those of others as well as one's own. The topics 'travel' and 'travel writing' therefore invite us to address questions of reliability and verifiability.
This volume brings together experts from diverse disciplines and places around the globe whose work is concerned with the phenomenon and discourse of travel, transculturation, and the cross-cultural production of knowledge. The contributions reflect the recent shift in travel scholarship toward including the study of ideological conflicts within Europe's 'imperial gaze', as well as attempts at tracing the perspective of Europe's 'others', which frequently challenged colonial certainties and claims to intellectual supremacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mackenthun, Gesa

Nicolas, Andrea

Wodianka, Stephanie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Book Cover;1
1.1;Imprint;4
1.2;Contents;5
2;Introduction (Gesa Mackenthun, Andrea Nicolas, and Stephanie Wodianka);7
2.1;Travel: Approaching the Term;7
2.2;Travel, Trade, and the Expansion of Europe;9
2.3;Travel as Text and Discourse;11
2.4;Travel and Knowledge Circulation;13
2.5;Travel and the ‘Violence’ of Ethnographic Knowledge;15
2.6;Local Knowledge, ‘Travelees’, and Counter Journeys;18
2.7;Travel as Theory Metaphor;20
2.8;Chapter Summaries;22
2.9;Works Cited;30
3;Chapter One. Travel/Landscapes. Wor(l)ds on Their Way to Transareal Travel Literature (Ottmar Ette);39
3.1;Escaping Landscapes;39
3.2;Nomadic Knowledge;44
3.3;Longed-for Connections;49
3.4;Landscapes of Theory;54
3.5;Tropical Landscapes of Islands;57
3.6;Beginnings and Endings of the Travel Report;63
3.7;Abandoning the Central Perspective;66
3.8;Works Cited;71
4;Chapter Two. Circulating Knowledge on Nature: Travelers and Informants, and the Changing Geography of Linnaean Natural History (Hanna Hodacs);75
4.1;Moving on – Traveling and Careers in Eighteenth-Century Europe;77
4.2;Informants, Naturalists, and the Circulation of Knowledge;84
4.3;Conclusion;93
4.4;Works Cited;94
5;Chapter Three. The Arctic and the Cultural Archive: Adelbert von Chamisso’s "Reise um die Welt"/"Voyage Round the World" (Gabriele Dürbeck);99
5.1;Archive/Archives – Epistemological, Institutional, and Material Dimensions;101
5.2;Chamisso’s Travelogue as an Intertextual Archive;102
5.3;Collection, Circulation of Knowledge, and Power;106
5.4;Ethnographical Interest and Detailed Descriptions;112
5.5;Concluding Remarks;114
5.6;Works Cited;115
6;Chapter Four. Pathfinders in Latin America: The Travelogues of Lucio V. Mansilla and Désiré Charnay (Leila Gómez);121
6.1;Mansilla’s Pathfinders: Maps and Love;122
6.2;The Female Pathfinder’s Love;128
6.3;Désiré Charnay in Mexico and the Pathfinder as a Witness of Modernity;131
6.4;Conclusion;136
6.5;Works Cited;137
7;Chapter Five. Telling Dreams: Oneiric Circulation in Early Modern ‘New France’ (Mary Baine Campbell);139
8;Chapter Six. “Communication That Belongs To No One”? Reading the Vocabularies and Dialogues in James Isham’s "Observations on Hudson’s Bay" (1743) (Bruce Greenfield);163
8.1;Writing for the Hudson’s Bay Company;167
8.2;Isham’s Vocabularies and Dialogues;170
8.3;Works Cited;179
9;Chapter Seven. “Hell For Horses, Paradise For Women”: Power and Identity in Nineteenth-Century North African Narratives of Travel to Europe (Daniel Newman);183
9.1;The Travelers;187
9.2;The Travelogues;190
9.3;Works Cited;196
10;Chapter Eight. Interrogating Travelers: On the Production of Western Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (Michael Harbsmeier);201
11;Chapter Nine. Traveling Texts: De-orientalizing Marco Polo’s "Le Devisement du monde" (Sharon Kinoshita);223
11.1;Marco Polo in the Popular Imagination;226
11.2;Marco Polo and the Genealogies of Orientalism;229
11.3;The World Empire of Letters;238
11.4;Works Cited;241
12;Chapter Ten. The Medium is the Knapsack. Johann Gottfried Seume’s Travelogue "Spaziergang nach Syrakus im Jahre 1802" (Rupert Gaderer);247
13;Chapter Eleven. Rome, Lieu de Connaissance, Lieu de l’Écriture (Friedrich Wolfzettel);263
13.1;Le Roman Sentimental Féminin;265
13.2;Le Roman Historique et Social;267
13.3;Le Roman Réaliste et l’Enquête Naturaliste;268
14;Chapter Twelve. The Story of Kazimierz Nowak – the Man who Traveled Across Africa on Bicycle and Horseback in the 1930s, and the Aftermath of his Journey (?ukasz Wierzbicki);281
15;Chapter Thirteen. The Tourist ‘Thing’ in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Dean MacCannell);295
15.1;The Divided Subject;295
15.2;Split Subjects in Motion;296
15.3;Durkheim’s ‘Thing’;297
15.4;The Tourist Object and its Field of Force;299
15.5;How is the Tourist Thing Different from Things in General?;300
15.6;How is the Tourist Thing Similar to Things in General?;301
15.7;Tourist Imagery as a Positive Force Field;301
15.8;The Divisions of the Tourist Object;302
15.9;Tourist Imagery as a Negative Force Field – Virtual Travel?;302
15.10;The Symbolic;305
15.11;Conclusion;306
15.12;Works Cited;307
16;Contributors;309