Travels to Europe in the 19th and early 20th century. Educational processes and the construction of national identities in travelogues of Creole travellers

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The aim of the project is to analyse from a historical and transnational perspective processes of education as well as the construction of national identities in (autobiographical) travel reports of Creole travellers. On the basis of their relationship to Europe and Latin America, the planned research project is to examine the extent to which affiliations and non-affiliations were negotiated and constructed by nationality and gender. It is assumed that during the description of their own national affiliation, Creole men and women were continually re-establishing themselves between an 'utter motherland' and a former colony in an oscillating movement, whereby their concepts of 'self and foreignness' are characterized by ambiguity. Experiences of foreignness and difference can in turn initiate educational processes, which are to be worked out by analysing a special subspecies of the source category travel reports: travel diaries.