Beyond Imperial Eyes
@inproceedings{Lindsay2011BeyondIE, title={Beyond Imperial Eyes}, author={Claire Frances Lindsay}, year={2011} }
The influence of Mary Louise Pratt’s 1992 study, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, has been far reaching. That Pratt was persuaded to update and expand her original book in a recently published second edition (2008) is indicative of its canonical status. That a number of the book’s key tenets and terms – such as the ‘contact zone’, ‘autoethnography’ and ‘anti-conquest’ – have been widely appropriated in anthropology, geography, history, philosophy, cultural and literary…
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