02970nam 2200637 a 450 991046162670332120200520144314.01-78138-770-21-78138-900-41-84631-773-8(CKB)2670000000177964(EBL)1591008(SSID)ssj0001012719(PQKBManifestationID)11574394(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001012719(PQKBWorkID)11052073(PQKB)10087313(UkCbUP)CR9781846317736(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127296(MiAaPQ)EBC867109(UkCbUP)CR9781781387702(MiAaPQ)EBC1591008(Au-PeEL)EBL867109(CaPaEBR)ebr10555098(CaONFJC)MIL878049(OCoLC)793510863(Au-PeEL)EBL1591008(OCoLC)867929503(EXLCZ)99267000000017796420120510d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMobility at large[electronic resource] globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing /Justin D. Edwards & Rune GraulundLiverpool Liverpool University Press20121 online resource (375 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84631-821-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexMobility 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 stTravel writingHistory and criticismElectronic books.Travel writingHistory and criticism.808.06691Edwards Justin D704125Graulund Rune884315MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461626703321Mobility at large2467737UNINA