Impure and Worldly Geography: Pierre Gourou and Tropicality

by Gavin Bowd and Daniel Clayton

Book Overview

Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary - 'us' and 'them' - terms. It has long been implicated in empire and its anxieties over difference. However, little attention has been paid to its twentieth-century genealogy.

This book explores this neglected history through the work of Pierre Gourou, one of the century's foremost purveyors of what anti-colonial writer Aim C saire dubbed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367661217
• ISBN13: 9780367661212
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"