The global politics of contemporary travel writing /

To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents and press releases? Debbie Lisle argues that the formulations of genre, identity, geopolitics and his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lisle, Debbie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Travel writing > Political aspects.
Travel writing > Social aspects.
Globalization in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Aspect politique.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Aspect social.
Mondialisation dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Reiseliteratur
Geopolitik
Globalisierung
Englisch.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : the global imaginary of contemporary travel writing
  • 2. Between fact and fiction : the generic boundaries of travel writing
  • 3. The cosmopolitan gaze : rearticulations of modern subjectivity
  • 4. Civilising territory : geographies of safety and danger
  • 5. Looking back : utopia, nostalgia and the myth of historical progress
  • 6. Engaging the political : contemporary travel writing and the ethics of difference.

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