Mobility at Large : Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing.
Edwards, Justin D.
Mobility at Large : Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing. - Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : travel revisited -- Travelling with the Ohdaatje Bros. -- Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips : global travel, then and now -- Unhomely travels ; or, the haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W.G. Sebald -- The world, my city : home grounds and global cities -- Travel histories : from Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and beyond -- Postscript : still mobile.
This book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing that experiments with form, content and the politics of representation. Writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of original textual strategies to work through questions of movement and the politics of personal identity in relation to the complex interlocutions of space, place and subjectivity.
9781846317736 (electronic bk.) 1846317738 (electronic bk.) 9781781387702 1781387702
22573/ctt5p5tmr JSTOR
Travel writing--History and criticism.
Voyage--Art d'écrire--Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric.
REFERENCE--Writing Skills.
Travel writing.
Reiseliteratur
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56
808.06691 809.9332
Mobility at Large : Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing. - Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : travel revisited -- Travelling with the Ohdaatje Bros. -- Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips : global travel, then and now -- Unhomely travels ; or, the haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W.G. Sebald -- The world, my city : home grounds and global cities -- Travel histories : from Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and beyond -- Postscript : still mobile.
This book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing that experiments with form, content and the politics of representation. Writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of original textual strategies to work through questions of movement and the politics of personal identity in relation to the complex interlocutions of space, place and subjectivity.
9781846317736 (electronic bk.) 1846317738 (electronic bk.) 9781781387702 1781387702
22573/ctt5p5tmr JSTOR
Travel writing--History and criticism.
Voyage--Art d'écrire--Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric.
REFERENCE--Writing Skills.
Travel writing.
Reiseliteratur
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56
808.06691 809.9332