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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461626703321

Autore

Edwards Justin D

Titolo

Mobility at large [[electronic resource] ] : globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing / / Justin D. Edwards & Rune Graulund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-78138-770-2

1-78138-900-4

1-84631-773-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GraulundRune

Disciplina

808.06691

Soggetti

Travel writing - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Travel Revisited; 1 Travelling with the Ondaatje Bros; 2 Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips: Global Travel, Then and Now; 3 Unhomely Travels;  or, the Haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald; 4 The World, My City: Home Grounds and Global Cities; 5 Travel Histories - From Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and Beyond; Postscript: Still Mobile; Bibliography; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mobility at Large explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing wherein the authors experiment with form, content and the politics of representation. In this, innovative travel texts by a range of writers - from Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips to Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller - transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of experimental textual st