Postcolonial Travel Writing [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Explorations / / edited by J. Edwards, R. Graulund
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| Titolo: |
Postcolonial Travel Writing [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Explorations / / edited by J. Edwards, R. Graulund
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| 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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