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Place Matters

by Susan Morgan
Place Matters - Thryft
Place Matters - Thryft

Exploring the intersection of place and imperialism.

Recommendation: - This book is a fascinating exploration of the relationships between place and imperialism in Victorian literature, focusing on Southeast Asia. Through a careful analysis of various writings, Susan Morgan uncovers the complex and gendered nature of imperial rhetoric. If you're interested in understanding how specific locations shape imperial histories and subjectivity, this book is a must-read. - Place Matters provides a fresh perspective on Victorian imperialism by examining the unique experiences and writings of women in Southeast Asia. Susan Morgan's analysis challenges the monolithic view of imperialist locations and sheds light on the distinct masculine imperial rhetorics found in different places. If you're intrigued by the intersection of place, gender, and imperialism, this book will broaden your understanding.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Place Matters

by Susan Morgan
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ISBN: 9780813522494
Authors: Susan Morgan
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Date of Publication: 1996-02-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Literature
Related Topics: European History, Social Justice
Goodreads rating: 4.5
(rated by 2 readers)

Description

"Morgan has written an important and original work that presents a well-substantiated challenge to many recent studies of 'colonial discourse'."--Nancy L. Paxton,Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions, previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies, begins with the transforming premise that "place matters." Concepts derived from writings about one area of the world cannot simply be transposed to another area, in some sort of global theoretical move. Moreover, place in the discourse of Victorian imperialism is a matter of gendered as well as geographic terms. Taking up works by Anna Forbes and Marianne North on the Malay Archipelago, by Margaret Brooke and Harriette McDougall on Sarawak, by Isabella Bird and Emily Innes on British Malaya, by Anna Leonowens on Siam, Morgan also makes extensive use of theorists whose work on imperialism in Southeast Asia is unfamiliar to most American academics.This vivid examination of a different region and different writings emphasizes that in Victorian literature there was no monolithic imperialist location, authorial or geographic. The very notion of a ‘colony’ or an ‘imperial presence’ in Southeast Asia is problematic. Morgan is concerned with marking the intersections of particular Victorian imperial histories and constructions of subjectivity. She argues that specific places in Southeast Asia have distinctive, and differing, masculine imperial rhetorics. It is within these specific rhetorical contexts that women’s writings, including their moments of critique, can be read.
 

Exploring the intersection of place and imperialism.

Recommendation: - This book is a fascinating exploration of the relationships between place and imperialism in Victorian literature, focusing on Southeast Asia. Through a careful analysis of various writings, Susan Morgan uncovers the complex and gendered nature of imperial rhetoric. If you're interested in understanding how specific locations shape imperial histories and subjectivity, this book is a must-read. - Place Matters provides a fresh perspective on Victorian imperialism by examining the unique experiences and writings of women in Southeast Asia. Susan Morgan's analysis challenges the monolithic view of imperialist locations and sheds light on the distinct masculine imperial rhetorics found in different places. If you're intrigued by the intersection of place, gender, and imperialism, this book will broaden your understanding.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.