From the Grand Tour to African adventure : haggard-inspired literary tourism 

Show simple item record

dc.contributor.author Smith, Yvonne
dc.date.accessioned 2014-05-21T09:47:19Z
dc.date.available 2014-05-21T09:47:19Z
dc.date.issued 2013-11
dc.description This article is derived from an MA dissertation in Heritage and Cultural Tourism concerning literary tourism as a developing genre and its potential within South Africa, which the author completed as a postgraduate student in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29043 en_US
dc.description.abstract Hierdie artikel ondersoek die invloed van literatuur op toerismeneigings wat tot stand gebring is voor die middel-negentiende eeu en hoe hierdie gewoontes hulleself in besonder in daaropvolgende reise na Afrika en Suider-Afrika geopenbaar het. Literêre toerisme, 'n vorm van kultuurreis gebaseer op skrywers en literêre werke, sal in aanmerking geneem word as 'n vanselfsprekende uitdrukking van die literatuurtoerisme-verhouding. Met verwysing na verwikkelinge voortspruitend uit die Romantiek en Industriële Rewolusie, sal die kulturele proses om Afrika as 'n nuwe toerismebestemming te vestig, ondersoek word. Soos in die geval van vele ander Europees-gekoloniseerde streke, is die persepsies wat ontwikkel het tydens die era van die 'Grand Tour' omgeset na Afrika om te kulmineer in uitbeeldings en indrukke soos die 'donker kontinent', 'edel barbaar', 'jagtersparadys' en dies meer. Groot Zimbabwe, 'n gebied in Suider-Afrika wat vermoedelik as die agtergrond en inspirasie vir 'n aantal van H. Rider Haggard se verhale gedien het, sal gebruik word om te illustreer hoe hierdie historiese, literêre en toerisme-ontwikkelinge ineengeloop het om die indruk van 'n aanloklike toerismebestemming te skep. en_US
dc.description.abstract This article explores the influence of literature on tourism trends cultivated prior to the mid-nineteenth century, and how these habits came to manifest themselves in subsequent travel to Africa and Southern Africa in particular. Literary tourism, as a form of cultural travel based on writers and literary works, will be considered as a patent expression of the literature-tourism relationship. With reference to developments stemming from the Romantic Movement and Industrial Revolution, the cultural process of establishing Africa as a new tourism destination will be investigated. As was the case in many other European-colonised regions, the perceptions that had evolved from the era of the Grand Tour were transposed to Africa, culminating in the portrayals and impressions of the 'dark continent', 'noble savage', 'hunter's paradise' and the like. Great Zimbabwe, a Southern African site believed to serve as the setting and inspiration for a number of H. Rider Haggard's literary works, will be used to illustrate how these historical, literary and tourism developments converged to form the impression of an alluring tourism destination. en_US
dc.description.librarian am2014 en_US
dc.description.uri http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_culture.html en_US
dc.description.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29043 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Smith, Y 2013, 'From the Grand Tour to African adventure : haggard-inspired literary tourism', South African Journal of Cultural History, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 132-156. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1018-0745
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/39834
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher South African Society of Cultural History en_US
dc.rights South African Society of Cultural History en_US
dc.subject Goties en_US
dc.subject Groot Zimbabwe en_US
dc.subject Imperiale avontuurfiksie en_US
dc.subject Kultuurtoerisme en_US
dc.subject Literere toerisme en_US
dc.subject Romantiek en_US
dc.subject Subliem en_US
dc.subject Suider-Afrika en_US
dc.subject Cultural tourism en_US
dc.subject Gothic en_US
dc.subject Grand Tour en_US
dc.subject Great Zimbabwe en_US
dc.subject H. Rider Haggard en_US
dc.subject Imperial adventure fiction en_US
dc.subject Literary tourism en_US
dc.subject Romanticism en_US
dc.subject Southern Africa en_US
dc.subject Sublime en_US
dc.title From the Grand Tour to African adventure : haggard-inspired literary tourism  en_US
dc.title.alternative Van die ‘Grand Tour’ na Afrika-avontuur : Haggard-geïnspireerde literêre toerisme en_US
dc.type Article en_US


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record