Writing the “Real Jerusalem”
British and American Travel Accounts in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9372002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mona Kattaya (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Issue | 44 |
| Pages | 14-14 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jerusalem Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2521-9731 • E-ISSN: 2521-974X |
| Publisher | Institute for Palestine Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.70190/jq.i44.p14 |
| OpenAlex | W4409165590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
nineteenth-century pilgrimage/travel discourse.The accounts of British and American pilgrims and travelers are uniquely built on a single colonial attitude whose ideological core is identical with the discourse of Zionism..These travelers had a grand design on Jerusalem: the re-building of the Jewish "New Jerusalem", the capital of the Kingdom of Israel, which entailed that the "Old" Jerusalem had to be eliminated, literally, from existence.In terms of its imperial value, Jerusalem, in these accounts, had to be presented not as an end to itself, but merely as the means of attaining an altogether greater promise.What is so unique about the meaning given to Jerusalem in the nineteenth century is that Jerusalem was produced for the West through a master discourse that was unique in being an ensemble of several discourses: the pilgrimage discourse, the Crusader discourse, the Zionist discourse, and finally the Orientalist discourse.This cultural representation of Jerusalem was central to the process of turning that colonial vision into reality.The contribution of travelers with their written accounts to this campaign was particularly significant.British and American travelers were active agents in the construction of the colonial enterprise.Their two responses, namely the fascination with the landscape of Jerusalem on one hand and the search for the "real" Jerusalem on the other, were two complimentary mechanisms to further instill the necessity and legitimization of the colonization of Jerusalem
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Literature · Travel writing · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |