Original scientific paper

Constructing the Other in Rebecca West's "Black Lamb, Gray Falcon"

Ivona Grgurinović orcid.org/0009-0004-6250-1289 ; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju

Abstract

The author outlines a short history of the travel writing genre, especially with regards to the changes in its structure caused by historical circumstances. The travel text Black Lamb and Gray Falcon is placed into a wider context of British travel writing between two world wars. Utilizing the terms of anti-conquest (Mary Louise Pratt) and "Montesquieu effect" (Pierre Bourdieu), the ways in which this travel text constructs the Balkans as the European Other are outlined.

Keywords

travel-writing; anti-conquest; stereotype; Montesquieu effect; the Balkans

Hrčak ID:

37017

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/37017

Publication date:

5.1.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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