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The long journey : exploring travel and travel writing /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Di Bella, Maria Pia (Editor ), Yothers, Brian, 1975- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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, literary scholars, social historians, and other scholars to illuminate travel writing in all its forms. With studies ranging from colonial adventurism to the legacies of the Holocaust, The Long Journey offers a unique dual focus on experience and genre as it applies to three key realms: memory and trauma, confrontations with the Other, and the cultivation of cultural perspective"--
Notas:"Originally published in Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing"--T.p. verso
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781789209372
1789209374