Views on Europe: Gender Historical and Postcolonial Perspectives on Journeys

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Views on Europe

Gender Historical and Postcolonial Perspectives on Journeys

Edited by: Lilli Riettiens and Elke Kleinau

Volume 1 in the series Studies in the History of Education and Culture / Studien zur Bildungs- und Kulturgeschichte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110734966

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About this book

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.

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Lilli Riettiens and Elke Kleinau, Department of Educational and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Views on Europe. Gender Historical and Postcolonial Perspectives on Journeys Lilli Riettiens and Elke Kleinau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Fictional and Real Travellers from Asia in Enlightenment Europe: Describing European Habits and Culture Claudia Opitz-Belakhal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Suat Derviş, Journalist, Novelist and Feminist: Texts Written in Germany and Texts about Germany Béatrice Hendrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
“This Demolished Church was Equally the Face of Contemporary Europe” – Configurations and Representations of Twentieth Century Europe by Three Indian Travellers Nishant K. Narayanan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
The Empire Writes Back. Views on Europe from Hispanic America in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century Florian Grafl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The Inverted Mirror: Brazilian Hybridity and European Picturesqueness in Nísia Floresta’s Travel Writing Meritxell Simon-Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
The Minister, the Bride and the School Girl: English Canadians in Europe, 1860s–1880s Cecilia Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Family Album and Failure in Louise Bryant’s and Martha Gellhorn’s Travel Accounts in Russia Leila Gómez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Beyond Geography: Europe as a Journey in Dumitru Tsepeneag’s Hotel Europa Miruna Bacali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
List of authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of History of Education and Gender, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Literary Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 5
- Main content: 166
Keywords: Journeys; Europe; gender; postcolonial

eBook

Published: April 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110734966

Hardcover

Published: April 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110738780