The Long Journey : Exploring Travel and Travel Writing /

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Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, lite...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bella, Maria Pia Di (Editor ), Bracewell, Wendy (Contribuidor), Clarke, Robert (Contribuidor), Di Bella, Maria Pia (Contribuidor), Finley, Cheryl (Contribuidor), Fogel, Joshua A. (Contribuidor), Huggan, Graham (Contribuidor), Murray, Alex (Contribuidor), Nayar, Pramod K. (Contribuidor), Newlin, Keith (Contribuidor), Sakhnini, Mohammad (Contribuidor), Stearns, Precious McKenzie (Contribuidor), Thomas, Julia (Contribuidor), Yothers, Brian (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020]
Temas:
Travel writers.
Travel writing.
Voyages and travels.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
career.
colonial adventurism.
colonialism post colonialism.
coming of age.
cultural anthropology.
cultural perspective.
cultural practice.
cultural social.
cultural.
democracy.
diplomacy.
engaging.
essays travelogues.
essays.
globalization.
historical record.
historical.
history.
holocaust studies.
literary scholars.
literary.
memory.
metaphorical process.
political science.
realistic.
retrospective.
social historians.
social science.
social.
trauma.
travel writing.
travel.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I MEMORY AND TRAUMA
  • Chapter 1 WALKING MEMORY Berlin's "Holocaust Trail"
  • Chapter 2 TOURING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
  • Chapter 3 A WARTIME CINEMATIC RECREATION OF THE JOURNEY LINKING CHINA AND JAPAN IN THE MODERN ERA
  • PART II VISUALIZING OTHERNESS
  • Chapter 4 SEEING A DIFFERENCE Spectacles of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Illustrated Travel Books
  • Chapter 5 A BEGINNING, TWO ENDS, AND A THICKENED MIDDLE Journeys in Afghanistan from Byron to Hosseini
  • Chapter 6 NEW MEN, OLD EUROPE Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing
  • Chapter 7 AMONG CANNIBALS AND HEADHUNTERS Jack London in Melanesia
  • PART III CREATING AND RECOVERING PERSPECTIVE
  • Chapter 8 FORGETTING LONDON Paris, Cultural Cartography, and Late Victorian Decadence
  • Chapter 9 IN THE EYES OF SOME BRITONS Aleppo, an Enlightenment City
  • Chapter 10 An Ordinary Place: Aboriginality and 'Ordinary' Australia in Travel Writing of the 1990s
  • Chapter 11 "THE RIGHT SORT OF WOMAN" British Women Travel Writers and Sports
  • CONCLUSION Interminable Journeys
  • INDEX

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