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Travel narratives in dialogue: contesting representations of nineteenth-century Peru

Butler, Shannon M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1110211109

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2005, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
Nineteenth-century imperialist travel writers published travelogues about their travels in Peru. In their narratives, they employed certain representational techniques to constitute Peru and its inhabitants as Other and, therefore, “inferior” to the travel writers themselves and to the imperialist countries of which they were citizens. Peruvian writers during this same period authorized themselves, and wrote their own travelogues about Peru and its inhabitants. They fashioned their narratives as protests against how imperialist writers denigrated Peru and Peruvian culture in their writings. They, too, employed rhetorical tropes of othering in an effort to constitute themselves as part of a national hegemony not-yet solidified due to Peru being a newly-independent nation. This dissertation examines nineteenth-century travelogues written about Peru; exposes their dialogic nature in the Bakhtinean sense; and underscores how the travel- writing subjects produce texts that serve as fora of struggle, coercion, control and contestation (about Peru’s then-current and future state) – depending on the personal, imperialist, nationalist and proto-feminist agendas these writers supported. The main corpus of narratives, examined according to a discursive and cultural framework, include those written by J.J. von Tschudi, Madeline Vinton Dahlgren, Flora Tristan, Juan Bustamante, Manuel A. Fuentes, and José Manuel Valdéz y Palacios.
Fernando Unzueta (Advisor)
194 p.
PERU; Peruvian; travelers; Dahlgren; imperialist; Tristan; travelogues

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  • Butler, S. M. (2005). Travel narratives in dialogue: contesting representations of nineteenth-century Peru [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1110211109

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  • Butler, Shannon. Travel narratives in dialogue: contesting representations of nineteenth-century Peru. 2005. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1110211109.

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  • Butler, Shannon. "Travel narratives in dialogue: contesting representations of nineteenth-century Peru." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1110211109

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