Travel Writing And The Transnational Author

Author : S. Knowles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137332468
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Writing and the Transnational Author written by S. Knowles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie.

Author : S. Knowles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137332468
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Writing and the Transnational Author written by S. Knowles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie.

Author : Margarita Marinova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136659404
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing written by Margarita Marinova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Marinova brings together published writings, archival materials, and personal correspondence of well or less known travelers of diverse ethnic backgrounds and artistic predilections: from the quintessential American Mark Twain to the Russian-Jewish ethnographer and revolutionary Vladimir Bogoraz; from masters of realist prose such as the Ukrainian-born Vladimir Korolenko and the Jewish-Russian-American Abraham Cahan, to romantic wanderers like Edna Proctor, Isabel Hapgood or Grigorii Machtet. By highlighting the reification of problematic stereotypes of ethnic and racial difference in these texts, Marinova illuminates the astonishing success of the Cold War period’s rhetoric of mutual hatred and exclusion, and its continuing legacy today.

Author : Miguel A. Cabañas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317585070
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing written by Miguel A. Cabañas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and global citizenship; how they propose real-world political interventions in the places where the traveler goes; what tone they take toward political or socio-political violence; and how they intersect with political debates. Travel writing can be viewed as political in a purely instrumental sense, but, as this volume also demonstrates, travel writing’s reception and ideological interventions also transform personal and cultural realities. This book thus examines the ways in which politics’ material effects inform and intersect with personal experience in travel texts and engage with travel’s dialectic of mobility and stasis. In spite of globalization and efforts to eradicate the colonial vision in travel writing and in travel writing criticism, this vision persists in various and complex ways. While the travelogue can be a space of discursive and direct oppression, these essays suggest that the travelogue is also a narrative space in which the traveler employs the genre to assert authority over his or her experiences of mobility. This book will be an important contribution for interdisciplinary scholars with interests in travel writing studies, global and transnational studies, women’s studies, multicultural studies, the social sciences, and history.

Author : Babs Boter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789088909757
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unhinging the National Framework written by Babs Boter and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how personal life-stories, when reconstructed as 'transnational lives,' escape the confines of national histories and open up new avenues for interpreting cultural identity, social mobility, and public memory.

Author : Isabel Kalous
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839459532
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Travel Writing written by Isabel Kalous and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel to Africa by African American and Black British authors. She places the texts within the long tradition of Black diasporic engagement with the continent, scrutinizes the significance of Black mobility, and demonstrates that travel writing serves as a means to negotiate questions of identity, belonging, history, and cultural memory. To provide a framework for the analyses of contemporary narratives, her study outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of Black travel writing. Authors discussed include, among others, Saidiya Hartman, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips.

Author : Margarita Marinova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136659390
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing written by Margarita Marinova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Marinova brings together published writings, archival materials, and personal correspondence of well or less known travelers of diverse ethnic backgrounds and artistic predilections: from the quintessential American Mark Twain to the Russian-Jewish ethnographer and revolutionary Vladimir Bogoraz; from masters of realist prose such as the Ukrainian-born Vladimir Korolenko and the Jewish-Russian-American Abraham Cahan, to romantic wanderers like Edna Proctor, Isabel Hapgood or Grigorii Machtet. By highlighting the reification of problematic stereotypes of ethnic and racial difference in these texts, Marinova illuminates the astonishing success of the Cold War period’s rhetoric of mutual hatred and exclusion, and its continuing legacy today.

Author : Maria Pia Di Bella
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789209366
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Journey written by Maria Pia Di Bella and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stefano Calzati
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781527521827
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Genre written by Stefano Calzati and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the cultural value of travel writing today? How is the genre affected by instant communication and digital technologies? This volume provides answers to these questions through adopting a transmedial perspective by comparing printed travel books and travel blogs. Notably, it explores how different editorial and medial choices impact on the cultural practices of travelling and writing. Methodologically, an ethnography is proposed via the discussion of a number of original interviews (collected over three years) with contemporary travel authors and bloggers, who journeyed around (and wrote about) China. These writers are from both the West (the UK, the USA, Italy, France, New Zealand) and China (Hong Kong and the Mainland). As such, the volume not only deconstructs the English-centredness and ethnocentrism that often affect travel writing as a genre, as well as many studies on it, but it also renews the academic debate on the politics behind the genre, connecting the texts with their spheres of production and reception. The study shows the interdependence between medial and literary features, on the one hand, and the ways of journeying and writing about the experience, which largely depend upon the biography of each writer, on the other.

Author : Peter Hulme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521786522
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing written by Peter Hulme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents