Decolonizing geographies of travel
Reading James/Jan Morris
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Phillips (0000-0003-4630-4555, corresponding author), Richard A Phillips (0000-0002-0208-1444, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-24 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649360122303 |
| OpenAlex | W4236034363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 19 |
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 an opportunity; in response, the conclusion redirects some critical attention away from writers and textual spaces to readers and interpretations, and thus points towards a postcolonial (and wider) politics of reading. Keywords: DecolonizationTravel WritingPolitics of ReadingGenderWalesJan Morris
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Critical reading · Empire · Epistemology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Sociology · Subjectivity · Trilogy · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
Routes
Imperial Eyes
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Descolonitzar la ment
Europe’s Myths of Orient
Mapping Men and Empire
Writing the Colonial Adventure
Gendering Orientalism
The Rhetoric of Empire
Women’s Orients
Women’s Orients
Journey through Utopia
The Wretched of the Earth
Black Skins, White Masks
British Women Travellers and Constructions of Racial Difference Across the Nineteenth‐Century American West
Questions of Travel
The Venetian Empire
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2022 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |