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Re-reading Maipina de la Barra: scientific observations in the first travel narrative by a Chilean woman.
- Source :
- Studies in Travel Writing; Feb2020, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p1-19, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This article presents a re-reading of the Chilean Maipina de la Barra's travel memoir Mis impresiones y mis vicisitudes en mi viaje a Europa, which was published in Buenos Aires in 1878. Whereas previous interpretations have read it as personal testimony and feminine revindication, this article shows how her memoir can also be read as field note observation and scientific divulgation. The theoretical framework is based on the history of science and knowledge and therefore offers a unique angle for studying the writing of a nineteenth-century woman who resided in a peripheral area of the world, far removed from the major centres of scientific advancement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- GIANT perch
HISTORY of science
WOMEN'S writings
TRAVEL
NARRATIVES
MEMOIRS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13645145
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Studies in Travel Writing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 146709146
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1818943