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Title:Critical Works on European Exploration Writing: A Conceptual Review
Author:Bello-Kano, IbrahimISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:Humanities Review Journal
Volume:2
Issue:2
Pages:57-70
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:literary criticism
travel
literature reviews (form)
History and Exploration
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
Abstract:The major point in this paper is that exploration narratives are literary artifacts, rather than non-literary documentary sources of history or anthropology; and that literary theorists and cultural historians should abandon the unhelpful and outdated conception of literature as designating only a 'privileged set of fictional, imaginative and creative forms of writing which... exhibit certain specific properties that require special methods of analysis if they are to be understood'. Rather, literature should be understood as a field marked by a variety of textualizations, by specific practices of writing to the extent that the distinction between, say, genres and forms, logics and practices of writing becomes an institutional rather than an aesthetic or a literary one. Bibliogr., notes, ref., online sum. [Journal abstract]
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