Exceptionalism and globalism: travel writers and the nineteenth--century American West.

From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Wrobel, David M. | Copyright information

SINCE THE PUBLICATION Of Edward Said's landmark study, Orientalism (1978), cultural historians have generally viewed travel writers within the theoretical contours of the postcolonial framework that Said helped construct. (1) Travel writers have been commonly characterized as the architects of imperial visions, the exoticizers, commodifiers, and objectifiers of colonized "others" who helped their readers in the imperial mother countries to understand, accept, and consume the exerci...

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