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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785690503321

Titolo

Postcolonial Travel Writing [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Explorations / / edited by J. Edwards, R. Graulund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

1-282-99839-0

9786612998393

0-230-29476-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/32

Soggetti

Literature—Philosophy

Culture—Study and teaching

Literature   

Fiction

America—Literatures

African literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Postcolonial/World Literature

North American Literature

African Literature

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; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Reading Postcolonial Travel Writing; 1 Beyond Imperial Eyes; 2 Disturbing Naipaul's 'Universal Civilization': Islam, Travel Narratives and the Limits of Westernization; 3 Travelling Home: Global Travel and the Postcolonial in the Travel Writing of Pico Iyer; 4 Travel Writing and Postcoloniality: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound; 5 Decolonizing Travel: James/Jan Morris's Geographies; 6 'Between somewhere and elsewhere': Sugar, Slate and Postcolonial Travel Writing

7 Where the Other Half Lives: Touring the Sites of Caribbean Spirit



Possession in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place8 Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid's Travel Writing; 9 Post-Orientalism and the Past-Colonial in William Dalrymple's Travel Histories; 10 An Interview with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.