Mobility at large [[electronic resource] ] : globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing / / Justin D. Edwards & Rune Graulund
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Edwards Justin D
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| Titolo: |
Mobility at large [[electronic resource] ] : globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing / / Justin D. Edwards & Rune Graulund
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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808.06691 |
| Soggetto topico: | Travel writing - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
GraulundRune
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| 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 st |
| 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.: | 9910461626703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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