ABSTRACT
Travel writing, like other writings of place-nature writing or the war memoir, has long felt its prerogative to be the representation of place, to fix in our minds the contours and colors of a particular region of the globe. As Dennis Porter observes in Haunted Journeys, "Such representations are always concerned with the question of place and of placing, of situating oneself once and for all vis-a-vis an Other or others" (Porter, 20). The blind authority with which an observer situates himself among others and then commits to narrative the characteristics of that place and its people can create what Mary Louise Pratt calls "othering."
