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Economies of representation, 1790-2000 colonialism and commerce

Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' It shows the ways in which commerce has exacerbated differences in power.
Print Book, English, c2007
Ashgate, Aldershot, c2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxiv, 237 p.
9780754662570, 0754662578
1200813693
Introduction, Leigh Dale and Helen Gilbert; Part 1 Colonialism and Commerce: Meditation on yellow: trade and indigeneity in the Caribbean, Peter Hulme; Sites of purchase: slavery, missions, and tourism on 2 Tanzanian sites, Gareth Griffiths; The Bible trade: commerce and Christianity in the Pacific, Anna Johnston; In search of M Leprae: medicine, public debate, politics and the leprosy commission to India, Jo Robertson; Coincidences and likely stories: viral exchange in the 'origin' of AIDS, Susan Knabe; Junk international: the symbolic drug trade, Brian Musgrove; Redefining the shebeen: the illicit liquor trade in South Africa, c1950-1983, Anne Mager; The textuality of tourism and the ontology of resource: an amazing Thai case study, Guy Redden. Part 2 Reading Exchange: Text as trading place: Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother, Ross Chambers; Raw deals: Kngwarreye and contemporary art criticism, Catherine Howell; Sweet beauty: West Indian travel narratives, Claudia Brandenstein; Women's trading in Fanny Stevenson's The Cruise of the Janet Nichol, Roslyn Jolly; Fair trade: marketing The Mohawk Princess, Anne Collett; How queer native narratives interrogate colonial discourses, Wendy Pearson; New life stories in the new South Africa, Judith Lutge Coullie; Poverty in 'Africa': a textbook case? Leigh Dale; Bibliography; Index.
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