Oriental AndalusiaBritish and American women explorers from a postcolonial perspective
Year of publication: 2009
Series: 4
Issue: 3
Pages: 1-14
Type: Working paper
Abstract
This working document explores travel narratives by three British and American 9th-century and 20th-century women writers in Spain from a postcolonial perspective. The critical and analytical work done so far in this area has dealt with texts written by male authors, such as Washington Irving, George Borrow or Richard Ford, and has focused mostly on historiographical and philological issues. However, a rigorous exploration of these texts considering the theoretical contributions of Eduard Said, Homi Bhabha or Ranahit Guha is still pending and can serve to open new perspectives in the field.