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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (Revised)
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (Revised) | Loui Pratt Mary, Mary Louise Pratt
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Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.
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Pratt brilliantly explains the unwitting complicity of naturalist and travellers in the imperial project in the so-called New World.
Terms introduced here: contact zone, anti-conquest, bodyscape. Not a light read, but will change the way you read travelogues.