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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Maria Pia Di Bella and Brian Yothers
  • Part 1. Memory and Trauma. Walking memory: Berlin's Holocaust Trail
  • Touring the African Diaspora
  • A wartime cinematic: Recreation of the journey linking China and Japan in the Modern Era
  • Part 2. Visualizing Otherness. Seeing a difference: Spectacles of otherness in eighteenth century illustrated travel books
  • A beginning, two ends, and a thickened middle journeys in Afghanistan from Byron to Hosseini
  • New men, old Europe: Being a man in Balkan travel writing
  • Among cannibals and headhunters: Jack London in Melanesia
  • Part 3. Creating and Recovering Perspective. Forgetting London: Paris, cultural cartography, and late Victorian decadence
  • In the eyes of some Britons: Aleppo, an enlightenment city
  • An ordinary place
  • The right sort of woman: British women travel writers and sports.