Decolonizing geographies of travel: Reading James/Jan Morris

Autor:	Richard Phillips
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Subjectivity Postcolonialism media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Media studies Gender studies Ambivalence Newspaper Reading (process) Trilogy British Empire Sociology Decolonization media_common
Zdroj:	Social & Cultural Geography. 2:5-24
ISSN:	1470-1197 1464-9365
DOI:	10.1080/14649360020028249
Popis:	Travel writing can produce critical 'in-between' spaces, which contribute to broader cultural politics of postcolonialism, by transgressing and in a preliminary sense deconstructing imperial binaries. These imperial binaries structure subjectivities, on the one hand, and material geographies, on the other. This paper examines such a project, through a reading of travel writing by James/Jan Morris, which shows how processes of decolonizing subjectivities and material geographies may be recursively related. Morris is known for newspaper coverage of the 1953 Everest expedition, for a trilogy on the British Empire, for the autobiographical account of a sex change, and for many travel books and articles; all of which foreground themes of gender and imperialism. The paper argues that Morris's decolonizations have charted and created in-between spaces of subjectivity and material geography, ambivalent spaces with critical potential. The ambivalence of these spaces can constitute a critical limitation, but also a...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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