Detalhes do Documento

Orientalism and Imperialism in French West Africa. Considerations on travel lit...

Data: 2013

Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9915

Origem: Repositório Institucional da UNL

Assunto(s): Mauritânia; Colonial Tourism; Travel writing; Perceptions of otherness

Descrição
In this article we intend to make a summary overview of the influence that literary production, originated under colonial mapping missions or later in travel writing, had in the construction and establishment of a discourse to advertise and promote tourism in Mauritania. To this end we will draw on travel narratives that are illustrative of different periods and that correspond in some way to discourses of otherness. In this specific case, such discourses relate to the “Moors” of the West African coast and were produced in various historical contexts. We will also consider the discourse present in the tourism promotion materials of the colonial period and we will demonstrate to what extent it can be engaged in a dialogue with 19th and 20th centuries’ Western colonial literature.

Tipo de Documento Artigo
Idioma Inglês