Week 9 Coming Home: Colonial Travellers to Britain
Core Readings:
Antoinette Burton, ‘Making a Spectacle of Empire: Indian Travellers in fin-de-siecle London, History Workshop Journal, 42 (1996), 126-46.
Antoinette Burton, ‘Tongues Untied: Lord Salisbury’s “Black Man” and the Boundaries of Imperial Democracy’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 42 (2000), 632-66.
Angela Woollaott, ‘The Colonial Flaneuse: Australian Women Negotiating Turn-of-the-Century London’, Signs, 25 (2000), 761-87.
Further Readings:
Antoinette Burton, At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Britain (1998).
Sara Mills, Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism (1991).
Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992).
Angela Woollacott, To Try Her Fortunes in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001).