Mexican travel writing / Thea Pitman.
By: Pitman, Thea
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BookSeries: Hispanic studies: culture and ideas: v. 9.Publisher: Oxford : Peter Lang, 2008Description: 209 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9783039110209; 3039110209.Subject(s): Mexican prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Travelers writings, Mexican | Travelers writings, Mexican -- History and criticismDDC classification: 868 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 868 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00161028 |
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This book is a detailed study of salient examples of Mexican travel writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While scholars have often explored the close relationship between European or North American travel writing and the discourse of imperialism, little has been written on how postcolonial subjects might relate to the genre. This study first traces the development of a travel-writing tradition based closely on European imperialist models in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico. It then goes on to analyse how the narrative techniques of postmodernism and the political agenda of postcolonialism might combine to help challenge the genre's imperialist tendencies in late twentieth-century works of travel writing, focusing in particular on works by writers Juan Villoro, Héctor Perea and Fernando Solana Olivares.
Bibliography: (pages 181-198) and index.
'Mexicans don't write travel books' -- Tropes and chronotopes -- The tradition of Mexican travel writing -- The postmodern and the postcolonial in contemporary Mexican travel writing -- Postmodernist or postcolonialist? Juan Villoro's Palmeras de la brisa rápida -- Virtual journeys: Héctor Perea's Mexico: crónica en espiral -- Archival travel writing: Fernando Solana Olivares' Oaxaca: crónicas sonámbulas -- 'Mexicans aren't great travellers'.