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Titolo: | Postcolonial Travel Writing [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Explorations / / edited by J. Edwards, R. Graulund |
Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2011. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/32 |
Soggetto topico: | Literature—Philosophy |
Culture—Study and teaching | |
Literature | |
Fiction | |
America—Literatures | |
African literature | |
Literary Theory | |
Cultural Theory | |
Postcolonial/World Literature | |
North American Literature | |
African Literature | |
Persona (resp. second.): | EdwardsJ |
GraulundR | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Postcolonial Travel Writing |
ISBN: | 1-282-99839-0 |
9786612998393 | |
0-230-29476-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785690503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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