03984nam 22009615 450 991095914740332120240508220124.09786612998393978128299839112829983909780230294769023029476610.1057/9780230294769(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(Perlego)3503943(EXLCZ)99267000000007026920151210d2011 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostcolonial Travel Writing Critical Explorations /edited by J. Edwards, R. Graulund1st ed. 2011.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2011.1 online resource (203 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349316892 134931689X 9780230241190 0230241190 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.LiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingLiteratureFictionAmericaLiteraturesAfrican literatureLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryWorld LiteratureFiction LiteratureNorth American LiteratureAfrican LiteratureLiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.Literature.Fiction.AmericaLiteratures.African literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.World Literature.Fiction Literature.North American Literature.African Literature.820.9/32Edwards Justin D.1970-704125Graulund Rune1794429MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959147403321Postcolonial Travel Writing4335083UNINA