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Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

Autor Leila Koivunen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2011
This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, central Africa was, effectively, a blank canvas for Europeans, unknown and devoid of visual representations.
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: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Travel Writing

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

List of Illustrations.  List of Abbreviations.  Acknowledgements.  Introduction  Part 1: Exploration and the Production of Travel Pictures  1. The Framed View of Africa  2. The Ideal of Visual Documentation  3. Problematic Picturing  4. Africa Captured in Pictures  Part 2: Illustrations of Africa Take Shape in Europe  5. Shared Eye-Witnessing  6. Selection of Imagery  7. The Inevitable Transformation  8. Coping with the Unknown Continent.  Conclusion: Africa through Western Eyes.  Appendices.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

Notă biografică

Leila Koivunen is a Finnish historian and an Adjunct Professor in the School of History at the University of Turku.

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

Descriere

This study provides the first sustained analysis of the process by which images of Africa were transformed into the illustrations of the continent that appeared in nineteenth-century European travel books. Koivunen 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.