03645nam 2200733 a 450 991082594430332120200520144314.01-282-99839-097866129983930-230-29476-610.1057/9780230294769(CKB)2670000000070269(EBL)652525(OCoLC)700707112(SSID)ssj0000472270(PQKBManifestationID)12190084(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472270(PQKBWorkID)10433445(PQKB)10503977(SSID)ssj0001660178(PQKBManifestationID)16438955(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001660178(PQKBWorkID)14987819(PQKB)11605327(DE-He213)978-0-230-29476-9(MiAaPQ)EBC652525(EXLCZ)99267000000007026920100809d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostcolonial travel writing critical explorations /edited by Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund1st ed. 2011.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York Palgrave Macmillan20111 online resource (203 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-31689-X 0-230-24119-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Writing7 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; IndexWith 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.Travelers' writings, Commonwealth (English)History and criticismTravelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticismCommonwealth prose literature (English)History and criticismTravel in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureTravelers' writings, Commonwealth (English)History and criticism.Travelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticism.Commonwealth prose literature (English)History and criticism.Travel in literature.Postcolonialism in literature.820.9/32Edwards Justin D.1970-704125Graulund Rune1637264MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825944303321Postcolonial travel writing4202797UNINA