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Author : Debbie Lisle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521867800
This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.
Author : Ulrike Brisson,Bernard Schweizer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781443815758
With its specific focus on the connections between politics, travel, and travel writing, Not So Innocent Abroad offers a fresh approach to the study of travel literature. The authors make clear that travel and travel writing are never an “innocent” enterprise; rather, journeying always occurs within political systems, and travel writing either reflects the traveler’s political stance, includes political aspects of foreign cultures, or directly or indirectly influences political decisions. In contrast to most scholarly publications that primarily focus on travel literature of former colonial nations, this volume includes a broader range of travelogues depicting cultures worldwide, spanning from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It thus offers with its comparative approach not only a geographically wide selection but also an historical dimension to the political aspects of travel writing. Although most travel literature generally has followed the Horatian principle to instruct and delight the armchair traveler, the authors of this volume clearly address the broader political implications of travel and travel writing within networks of “naked” politics, such as international or interior conflicts, emigration laws, or national propaganda. They also reveal how insidiously political messages are dissimulated through travel writing.
Author : Corinne Fowler,Charles Forsdick,Ludmilla Kostova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135019341
Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and modern languages, the contributors in this volume apply themselves to a number of key theoretical questions pertaining to travel writing and ethics, ranging from travel-as-commoditization to encounters with minority languages under threat. Taken collectively, the essays assess key critical legacies from parallel disciplines to the debate so far, such as anthropological theory and postcolonial criticism. Also considered, and of equal significance, are the ethical implications of the form’s parallel genres of writing, such as ethnography and journalism. As some of the contributors argue, innovations in these genres have important implications for the act of theorizing travel writing itself and the mode and spirit in which it continues to be conducted. In the light of such innovations, how might ethical theory maintain its critical edge?
Author : Peter Hulme,Tim Youngs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521786525
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Author : Miguel A. Cabañas,Jeanne Dubino,Veronica Salles-Reese,Gary Totten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317585077
This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and global citizenship; how they propose real-world political interventions in the places where the traveler goes; what tone they take toward political or socio-political violence; and how they intersect with political debates. Travel writing can be viewed as political in a purely instrumental sense, but, as this volume also demonstrates, travel writing’s reception and ideological interventions also transform personal and cultural realities. This book thus examines the ways in which politics’ material effects inform and intersect with personal experience in travel texts and engage with travel’s dialectic of mobility and stasis. In spite of globalization and efforts to eradicate the colonial vision in travel writing and in travel writing criticism, this vision persists in various and complex ways. While the travelogue can be a space of discursive and direct oppression, these essays suggest that the travelogue is also a narrative space in which the traveler employs the genre to assert authority over his or her experiences of mobility. This book will be an important contribution for interdisciplinary scholars with interests in travel writing studies, global and transnational studies, women’s studies, multicultural studies, the social sciences, and history.
Author : Robert Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107153394
This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.
Author : Barbara Korte,Anna Karina Sennefelder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000549041
The nexus between travel, writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old and new media are co-present and converge. Digitisation has had a profound impact on the practice and mediation of travel, but this volume aims to show that travel and its representation have always been enlaced with media. With contributions by experts in literary and cultural studies, journalism studies and informatics, the book takes a multi- and interdisciplinary approach and covers a wide range of media, from the hand-crafted album to social media. It illustrates how current transformations invite us to revisit earlier periods of travel writing and their media environments, and to explore the ways in which contemporary forms of mediation are prefigured by earlier practices and forms. The book addresses readers interested in travel writing, travel studies and cultural studies. Chapters Introduction, 3, 7 and 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Funded by University of Freiburg.
Author : Claire Lindsay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135167660
This book takes a new approach to travel writing about Latin America by examining ‘domestic’ journey narratives that have been produced by travellers from the continent itself and largely in Spanish. Historically, travel writing about Latin America has been written primarily from the perspective of the foreign, often European, traveller. As such, and following the large influx of military, scientific, and leisure travellers in the region since its colonisation, much of this foreign travel writing has depicted the continent in predominantly exoticist and/or imperialist terms. Lindsay explores how Latin American travellers have conceived and constructed narratives about travel at home and considers how such texts (many of them available in English translation or with subtitles) function to counter or corroborate long-standing myths about the continent. Through a series of regionally- and thematically-oriented case studies that engage with key issues, themes and debates in both Latin American and travel studies, Lindsay provides the first sustained interdisciplinary study of contemporary domestic travel narratives about the region and will also comprise an important intervention into methodological debates about travel and travel writing.
Author : Susan McWilliams,Susan Jane McWilliams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199329687
What does it mean to think globally? Susan McWilliams argues that to understand politics in our 'new world,' we should revisit one of the oldest themes in political theory: travel. This title uncovers the rich travel-story tradition of political theorizing and shows how it helps to answer today's toughest political questions.
Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472050727
A provocative look at travel—both voluntary and otherwise—in an uncertain world
Author : Bernard Schweizer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813921969
In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting ideologies—socialist, conservative, male chauvinist, and feminist—and the major travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts. Evelyn Waugh was a declared conservative and fascist sympathizer; George Orwell was a dedicated socialist; Graham Greene wavered between his bourgeois instincts and his liberal left-wing sympathies; and Rebecca West maintained strong feminist and liberationist convictions. Bernard Schweizer explores both the intentional political rhetoric and the more oblique, almost unconscious subtexts of Waugh, Orwell, Greene, and West in his groundbreaking study of travel writing's political dimension. Radicals on the Road demonstrates how historically and culturally conditioned forms of anxiety were compounded by the psychological dynamics of the uncanny, and how, in order to dispel such anxieties and to demarcate their ideological terrains, 1930s travelers resorted to dualistic discourses. Yet any seemingly fixed dualism, particularly the opposition between the political left and the right, the dichotomy between home and abroad, or the rift between utopia and dystopia, was undermined by the rise of totalitarianism and by an increasing sense of global crisis—which was soon followed by political disillusionment. Therefore, argues Schweizer, traveling during the 1930s was more than just a means to engage the burning political questions of the day: traveling, and in turn travel writing, also registered the travelers' growing sense of futility and powerlessness in an especially turbulent world.
Author : Paul Smethurst,Julia Kuehn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137457257
This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.
Author : John Zilcosky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802098061
Examining a broad range of texts and travellers from across the world, the contributors discuss canonical authors such as Homer, Goethe, and Baudelaire, alongside lesser known writers such as Theodor Herzl, Hans Erich Nossack, and William Gibson. This theoretically rich volume draws connections between travel and narrative, and provides powerful insights into the relationship between travel and the spoken act of storytelling, as well as the more ambivalent act of story writing.
Author : P. Smethurst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137030368
Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it.
Author : Casey Blanton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415938937
Traces travel writing's evolution from classical times to the present, focusing on Anglo-American work since the eighteenth century. Examines texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, Naipaul and Chatwin.