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Writing and Portage [microform] : the Post-settlement Novel and the Movement of Things

Brittan, Alice

出版	Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2002
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eXjPMgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The word "portage" describes both the labor of conveying things from one place to another and the things that merchants and travelers load onto ships and then carry over land when they reach their destination. This image is central to this dissertation, which examines the importance of the British goods that settlers took with them as they sailed to the colonies of Canada, South Africa, and Australia and built new homes and societies. Because these colonies were annexed primarily to enrich British trade, imported things were crucial not only to the physical and emotional lives of isolated and disoriented settlers but also to the ways in which the colonies came to imagine themselves and to formulate ideas about citizenship and independent nationhood, particularly in opposition to indigenous societies. The writing of explorers, missionaries, travelers, anthropologists, and settlers shows that between the British and those they sought to control and convert there is almost always a third term: the material form. As commercial cargo and personal effects moved across the oceans in unprecedented quantities, they become the material ambassadors of a distant home and the tools with which colonists attempted to make British culture portable.