Mobility at large : globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing / / Justin D. Edwards & Rune Graulund [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Edwards Justin D. <1970->
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| Titolo: |
Mobility at large : globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing / / Justin D. Edwards & Rune Graulund [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 808.06691 |
| Soggetto topico: | Travel writing - History and criticism |
| Persona (resp. second.): | GraulundRune |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : travel revisited -- Travelling with the Ohdaatje Bros. -- Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips : global travel, then and now -- Unhomely travels ; or, the haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W.G. Sebald -- The world, my city : home grounds and global cities -- Travel histories : from Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and beyond -- Postscript : still mobile. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Mobility 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 strategies to work through questions of movement and the politics of personal identity in relation to the complex interlocutions of space, place and subjectivity. As a result, Mobility at Large challenges those critics who dismiss the genre as inherently conservative and inextricably bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition. The book also documents a long and rich tradition of travel writing that existed well beyond the influence of Europe. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mobility at large |
| ISBN: | 1-78138-770-2 |
| 1-78138-900-4 | |
| 1-84631-773-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816072903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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