Mobility and Masks: Cultural Identity in Travel Literature - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0674295803 ISBN 13 : 9780674295803

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Travelers have always experimented with disguise while observing the disguises of others. Each of the chapters in Mobility and Masks illustrates the strategies of concealment in the experience of travel: a seventeenth-century German aristocrat discovers new freedom as she travels incognito, Jesuits write home from China in the eighteenth century about how costume changes serve their mission, a Chinese opera star reflects on his own masked art during a tour of Russia in 1935. Masking can be a racial marker, as shown in two nineteenth-century accounts: an English woman encountering the creole culture of the West Indies and a French woman observing how cosmetic beauty is defined in Shanghai. Fictional representations of the masked traveler are illustrative, too: masked voices in the lyric poetry of Horace, the masked woman as an obstacle in classic adventure tales, the failure of cultural masking in the story of a modern immigrant.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth C. Goldsmith is Professor Emerita of French at Boston University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674295803
• ISBN 13: 9780674295803
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
• Éditeur: Goldsmith Elizabeth C.
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