Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grog...

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Main Author: Hållen, Nicklas
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier 2011
Subjects:
travel literature
Africa
modernity
materiality
material objects
things
commodity form
commodity culture
postcolonialism
Homi Bhabha
museums
exhibitions
colonialism
geography
space
trade
ethnography
the book
ambivalence
subject-object relations
fetishism
John Speke
Verney Cameron
Henry Stanley
Mary Kingsley
Ewart Grogan
Constance Larymore
Mary Hall
English language
Engelska språket
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-46365
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7459-275-7

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