Not so innocent abroad : the politics of travel and travel writing / edited by Ulrike Brisson and Bernard Schweizer.

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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 225 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443815758
1443815756

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Not so innocent abroad.DDC classification:

809.9332 22

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PN56.T7 N68 2009eb

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EC 7459

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Contents:

"Naked" politics in travel writing / Ulrike Brisson -- The politics of travel writing in 2006 / Bernard Schweizer -- A short walk through Afghanistan : orientalism and its discontent in recent literature / Mark Graham -- The politics of travel writing in fascist Spain / Javier Torre -- Travel in disguise : on travel writing and cultural governance / Hager Weslati -- The personal is political : but is the political personal : women travel writers and their changing political roles / Maureen Mulligan -- Travel writing, emigration laws, and racial whitening in nineteenth-century German-Brazilian history / Gabi R. Kathöfer -- British female radical travelers and the revolution controversy, 1789-1815 / Tsai-Yeh Wang -- A new Æra for Switzerland : political instruction in Helen Maria Williams' and Sophie von La Roche's Swiss travel narratives during the French Revolution / Florence Widmer-Schnyder.

Summary: With its specific focus on the connections between politics, travel, and travel writing, Not So Innocent Abroad offers a fresh approach to the study of travel literature. The authors make clear that travel and travel writing are never an ""innocent"" enterp.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index.

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With its specific focus on the connections between politics, travel, and travel writing, Not So Innocent Abroad offers a fresh approach to the study of travel literature. The authors make clear that travel and travel writing are never an ""innocent"" enterp.

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