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Travel, Gender, and Imperialism: Mary Kingsley and West Africa

Travel, Gender, and Imperialism: Mary Kingsley and West Africa

Blunt, Alison

Paperback

Series: Mappings: Society/Theory/Space

African HistoryAfricaBritish History

ISBN10: 0898625467
ISBN13: 9780898625462
Publisher: Guilford Pubn
Published: Mar 25 1994
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Studies of women travel writers have ranged from anecdotal and celebratory accounts to more critical essays on imperialism or the textualization of difference. This book does more. Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel writer and critic of the Crown Colony system, Alison Blunt cogently examines the relationships among travel, gender, and imperialism. Instead of studying either travel generally or women travel writers in the colonial period specifically, Blunt examines both to show how the spatiality and gendering of travel are inseparable. Underlying her examination are debates about women as a focus of historical research, Western women and imperialism, and the place of women in a historiography of geography.

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