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Unsettling the Traveller: The Returned Gaze in Sea and Sardinia
Unsettling the Traveller: The Returned Gaze in Sea and Sardinia

Author(s): Peter Preston
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theory of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: travel writer; cultures; tourist gaze; cultural difference; Sea and Sardinia; returned gaze; narrator's identity; Englishness; national sterotype;

Summary/Abstract: As a travel writer who passed through many cultures, Lawrence became acutely aware of how the tourist gaze may be returned emphasising the traveller's cultural difference. This issue arises with special force in Sea and Sardinia (1921) where the returned gaze of the native inhabitants lead to questions concerning the narrator's identity and in particular how his Englishness results in his being treated in ways which see him in terms of a national sterotype that he energetically rejects.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 43-49
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English