By Ben Grant
By enticing heavily with the paintings of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the enduring nineteenth-century imperial secret agent, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways that the numerous metropolitan discourses to which Burton contributed drew upon and bolstered an intimate connection among fable and gear in the house of Empire. This unique examine sheds new mild at the mechanisms of imperial appropriation and will pay specific consciousness to Burton’s courting together with his adjust ego, Abdullah, the identify during which he famously travelled to Mecca and Medina disguised as a Muslim pilgrim. during this context, Grant also offers insightful readings of a few Burton’s contemporaries, equivalent to Müller, du Chaillu, Darwin and Huxley, and engages with postcolonial and psychoanalytic concept so that it will spotlight the problematical courting among the person and imperialism, and to inspire readers to consider what it potential to learn colonial historical past and imperial narrative today.
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