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“... enables. I first encountered it in a 1986 essay on travel writing and descriptive ethnography by Mary LouisePratt, in which she points to ‘a very familiar, widespread and stable form of “othering”’ whereby ‘the people to be othered are homogenised into a collective “they”.’ This process goes on, even ...”

“... and well-meaning Indians whose trajectories, in retrospect, are perceived merely to intersect. Mary LouisePratt’s Imperial Eyes, which analyses European travellers’ accounts of their experiences in the ‘contact zones’ of Africa and South America, is a better book than Ware’s, also a more enjoyable ...”