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Writes of passage : reading travel writing /
Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of ""othering"" which travelers bring to a place, and the ""real"" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Writes of Passage
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- FIELDS OF INTEREST
- SPACES OF REPRESENTATION
- SPACES OF TRAVEL
- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ESSAYS
- REFERENCES
- 2 Limited Visions of Africa
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 3 Enlightenment Travels
- BOGLE AND TURNER IN TIBET
- BUDDHISM DEFINED
- A PIVOTAL MOMENT
- LHASA AT LAST
- BEYOND INDIA AND TIBET
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 4 Writing Travel and Mapping Sexuality
- MAPPING SEXUALITY: THE NIGHTS AND THE SOTADIC ZONE
- TRAVEL GEOGRAPHIES AND TRAVELLING SEXUALITIES
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 5 The Flight from Lucknow
- THE FLIGHT FROM LUCKNOW
- TRAVELLING AND WRITING HOME
- TRAVELLING AWAY
- RECONSTRUCTING HOME
- CONCLUSIONS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 6 Scripting Egypt
- TRAVEL WRITING
- THEATRE, TEXT
- SCRIPTING, TRAVELLING AND WRITING
- SITES AND SIGHTS
- EGYPTIAN MODERN: VIEWING PLATFORMS AND VANTAGE-POINTS
- EXCAVATION AND EXHIBITION
- VIEW-HUNTING IN THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
- SCRIPTING EGYPT
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 7 Dis-Orientation
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 8 The Exoticism of the Familiar and the Familiarity of the Exotic
- INTRODUCTION: THE INSTABILITY OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
- EUROPEAN, ORIENTAL, OR BALKAN?
- CLASSICAL AND MODERN GREECE
- TRAVELLING THEORIES
- READINGS
- ENGLISHMEN, GREEKS, TURKS AND ROMANS
- A STRANGE LIKENESS: GREECE AND IRELAND
- CONCLUSION: GREEK CARICATURES
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 9 Travelling through the Closet
- INTRODUCTION
- PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERARY THEORY
- THE CLOSET
- GEOGRAPHIES OF DESIRE
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 10 Writing over the Map of Provence
- WRITING THE ENGLISH COUNTRY IDYLL IN RURAL FRANCE
- LITERARY DEVICES
- AN UNMEDIATED PLACE
- CONCLUSION: 'PROVENCE'-JUST A FICTIONAL LANDSCAPE?
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Index.