Erasing Footsteps: On Some Differences between the First and Popular Editions of Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

doi:10.5790/hongkong/9789622099142.001.0001

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题名:	Erasing Footsteps: On Some Differences between the First and Popular Editions of Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
作者:	Ozawa Shizen
贡献者:	淡江大學英文學系
关键词:	Isabella Bird;identity;revisions;political implications;Ainu people;missionary activities;travel writing
日期:	2008-06
上传时间:	2013-04-11
出版者:	Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press
摘要:	This chapter examines the political implications of the revisions made to Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Bird. The idealization of the Ainu people, the culminating northern point of her journey, consigns them to historical defeat, victims of the racial struggle for existence. In particular, it investigates how editorial changes alter the character of the traveler. It also shows how representations of Japan are accordingly modified. Finally, it reviews the most conspicuous difference between the two editions — the erasing of most of the references to missionary activities in Japan. Perhaps the act of travel writing is itself an effort to redefine identity, which contact with the other destabilizes to some extent. If this is the case, differences between the first and the popular editions of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan cast an interesting light upon the ways in which cultural boundaries are redrawn in the process of recounting travel.
關聯:	Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia, pp.87-97
DOI:	10.5790/hongkong/9789622099142.001.0001
显示于类别:	[英文學系暨研究所] 專書之單篇

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