Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge (eBook)

Book Cover 1
Imprint 4
Contents 5
Introduction (Gesa Mackenthun, Andrea Nicolas, and Stephanie Wodianka) 7
Travel: Approaching the Term 7
Travel, Trade, and the Expansion of Europe 9
Travel as Text and Discourse 11
Travel and Knowledge Circulation 13
Travel and the ‘Violence’ of Ethnographic Knowledge 15
Local Knowledge, ‘Travelees’, and Counter Journeys 18
Travel as Theory Metaphor 20
Chapter Summaries 22
Works Cited 30
Chapter One. Travel/Landscapes. Wor(l)ds on Their Way to Transareal Travel Literature (Ottmar Ette) 39
Escaping Landscapes 39
Nomadic Knowledge 44
Longed-for Connections 49
Landscapes of Theory 54
Tropical Landscapes of Islands 57
Beginnings and Endings of the Travel Report 63
Abandoning the Central Perspective 66
Works Cited 71
Chapter Two. Circulating Knowledge on Nature: Travelers and Informants, and the Changing Geography of Linnaean Natural History (Hanna Hodacs) 75
Moving on – Traveling and Careers in Eighteenth-Century Europe 77
Informants, Naturalists, and the Circulation of Knowledge 84
Conclusion 93
Works Cited 94
Chapter Three. The Arctic and the Cultural Archive: Adelbert von Chamisso’s "Reise um die Welt"/"Voyage Round the World" (Gabriele Dürbeck) 99
Archive/Archives – Epistemological, Institutional, and Material Dimensions 101
Chamisso’s Travelogue as an Intertextual Archive 102
Collection, Circulation of Knowledge, and Power 106
Ethnographical Interest and Detailed Descriptions 112
Concluding Remarks 114
Works Cited 115
Chapter Four. Pathfinders in Latin America: The Travelogues of Lucio V. Mansilla and Désiré Charnay (Leila Gómez) 121
Mansilla’s Pathfinders: Maps and Love 122
The Female Pathfinder’s Love 128
Désiré Charnay in Mexico and the Pathfinder as a Witness of Modernity 131
Conclusion 136
Works Cited 137
Chapter Five. Telling Dreams: Oneiric Circulation in Early Modern ‘New France’ (Mary Baine Campbell) 139
Chapter Six. “Communication That Belongs To No One”? Reading the Vocabularies and Dialogues in James Isham’s "Observations on Hudson’s Bay" (1743) (Bruce Greenfield) 163
Writing for the Hudson’s Bay Company 167
Isham’s Vocabularies and Dialogues 170
Works Cited 179
Chapter Seven. “Hell For Horses, Paradise For Women”: Power and Identity in Nineteenth-Century North African Narratives of Travel to Europe (Daniel Newman) 183
The Travelers 187
The Travelogues 190
Works Cited 196
Chapter Eight. Interrogating Travelers: On the Production of Western Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (Michael Harbsmeier) 201
Chapter Nine. Traveling Texts: De-orientalizing Marco Polo’s "Le Devisement du monde" (Sharon Kinoshita) 223
Marco Polo in the Popular Imagination 226
Marco Polo and the Genealogies of Orientalism 229
The World Empire of Letters 238
Works Cited 241
Chapter Ten. The Medium is the Knapsack. Johann Gottfried Seume’s Travelogue "Spaziergang nach Syrakus im Jahre 1802" (Rupert Gaderer) 247
Chapter Eleven. Rome, Lieu de Connaissance, Lieu de l’Écriture (Friedrich Wolfzettel) 263
Le Roman Sentimental Féminin 265
Le Roman Historique et Social 267
Le Roman Réaliste et l’Enquête Naturaliste 268
Chapter Twelve. The Story of Kazimierz Nowak – the Man who Traveled Across Africa on Bicycle and Horseback in the 1930s, and the Aftermath of his Journey (?ukasz Wierzbicki) 281
Chapter Thirteen. The Tourist ‘Thing’ in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Dean MacCannell) 295
The Divided Subject 295
Split Subjects in Motion 296
Durkheim’s ‘Thing’ 297
The Tourist Object and its Field of Force 299
How is the Tourist Thing Different from Things in General? 300
How is the Tourist Thing Similar to Things in General? 301
Tourist Imagery as a Positive Force Field 301
The Divisions of the Tourist Object 302
Tourist Imagery as a Negative Force Field – Virtual Travel? 302
The Symbolic 305
Conclusion 306
Works Cited 307
Contributors 309