This article investigates Burton’s wide array of hybrid cultural identities as a fluid, mobile perspective which opposes the imperial allegiances of his year-long experiences in the diplomatic service. By focusing on Burton’s travel accounts, his biographies and portraits, I argue that the Victorian polymath embraces an unstable identity that determined his success at challenging the imperial dynamics from within. His cross-dressing practices and his cultural shifts in the spaces between places and languages become then a primary location of empire in itself, albeit one which resists the dual divisions of gendered spaces and spheres.
Titolo: | “Portrait of a Victorian Explorer: Richard F. Burton on Myths and Exoticism” |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2018 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11387/129395 |
ISBN: | 9781527503724 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |