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

dc.contributor.authorSmith, Yvonne
dc.contributor.emailyvonne.smith@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-21T09:47:19Z
dc.date.available2014-05-21T09:47:19Z
dc.date.issued2013-11
dc.descriptionThis 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/2263/29043en_US
dc.description.abstractHierdie 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.abstractThis 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.librarianam2014en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_culture.htmlen_US
dc.description.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/29043en_US
dc.identifier.citationSmith, 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.issn1018-0745
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/39834
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouth African Society of Cultural Historyen_US
dc.rightsSouth African Society of Cultural Historyen_US
dc.subjectGotiesen_US
dc.subjectGroot Zimbabween_US
dc.subjectImperiale avontuurfiksieen_US
dc.subjectKultuurtoerismeen_US
dc.subjectLiterere toerismeen_US
dc.subjectRomantieken_US
dc.subjectSubliemen_US
dc.subjectSuider-Afrikaen_US
dc.subjectCultural tourismen_US
dc.subjectGothicen_US
dc.subjectGrand Touren_US
dc.subjectGreat Zimbabween_US
dc.subjectH. Rider Haggarden_US
dc.subjectImperial adventure fictionen_US
dc.subjectLiterary tourismen_US
dc.subjectRomanticismen_US
dc.subjectSouthern Africaen_US
dc.subjectSublimeen_US
dc.titleFrom the Grand Tour to African adventure : haggard-inspired literary tourism en_US
dc.title.alternativeVan die ‘Grand Tour’ na Afrika-avontuur : Haggard-geïnspireerde literêre toerismeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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