Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
Autor Leila Koivunenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2011
While previous works have concentrated on exploring the stereotyped nature of printed imagery of Africa, this study examines the actual production process of images and the books in which they were published in order to demonstrate how, why, and by whom the images were manipulated. Thus, the main focus of the work is not on the aesthetic value of pictures, but in the activities, interaction, and situations that gave birth to them in both Africa and Europe.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415699624
ISBN-10: 0415699622
Pagini: 350
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Travel Writing
ISBN-10: 0415699622
Pagini: 350
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Travel Writing
Cuprins
Introduction
Part 1: Exploration and the production of travel pictures
1. Towards the Unknown?
2. The Ideal of Visual Documentation
3. Problematic Picturing
4. "Darkest Africa" Captured in Pictures
Part 2: Illustrations of Africa Take Shape in Europe
5. Sharing the Experience of Being an Eye-Witness
6. Selection of Imagery
7. The Inevitable Transformation
8. Coping with the "Dark Continent"
Conclusion ߝ Africa through Western Eyes
Part 1: Exploration and the production of travel pictures
1. Towards the Unknown?
2. The Ideal of Visual Documentation
3. Problematic Picturing
4. "Darkest Africa" Captured in Pictures
Part 2: Illustrations of Africa Take Shape in Europe
5. Sharing the Experience of Being an Eye-Witness
6. Selection of Imagery
7. The Inevitable Transformation
8. Coping with the "Dark Continent"
Conclusion ߝ Africa through Western Eyes
Recenzii
"Leila Koivunen's study makes an impressive contribution to the growing body of critical work on Victorian travel writing."
- Adrian S. Wisnicki, Birkbeck, University of London and Fordham University
- Adrian S. Wisnicki, Birkbeck, University of London and Fordham University
Notă biografică
Leila Koivunen is a Finnish historian and an Adjunct Professor in the School of History at the University of Turku.