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Interpersonal encounters in contemporary travel writing : French and Italian Perspectives / Catharine Mee.
Van Pelt Library PQ307.T73 M44 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mee, Catharine, 1978- author.
- Series:
- Anthem studies in travel
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel writing--France--History.
- Travel writing.
- Travel writing--Italy--History.
- Interpersonal relations in literature.
- History.
- Italy.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- x, 192 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- This study examines the interpersonal encounter, an issue which is central to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century travel writing written in French and Italian, but has often been overlooked. Structured typologically, each chapter focuses on a different activity that typically brings the traveler-protagonist into contact with others, from guiding and interpreting to starting and photography. Drawing on literary critical studies of travel writing, sociological and anthropological approaches to tourism, and research on French and Italian studies, Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing locates the concept of the encounter within the context of modern tourism. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Encountering, Travelling, Writing 1
- Encounter 1
- Travel Writing and Tourism 6
- Voyage/Viaggio 10
- Chapters 12
- 2 Strategy, Authenticity, Ethics 17
- Strategy 18
- Authenticity 21
- Ethics 26
- 3 Guiding 33
- Authenticity and Mediation 34
- Guides and guidebooks 34
- The gatekeeper 38
- An authentic encounter 43
- Translation and Voice 47
- The invisible translator 47
- Representation strategies 50
- Authorship and readership 53
- 4 Hosting 59
- Hospitality and Authenticity 60
- Invitation versus reservation 60
- Back to the bubble 62
- Freedom 65
- Hospitality as control 65
- The world is my playground 68
- The Nature of Encounters 73
- Reciprocity 73
- Time and friendships 77
- 5 Staring 83
- The Stare of the Travellee 84
- The gaze, the stare and the travel encounter 84
- The travellee as starer 86
- The traveller as staree 91
- Photography and Encounter 94
- Tourists and cameras 94
- Photography as intrusion 96
- Photography as interaction 99
- 6 Challenging 107
- Economic Power 109
- Justification: Rickshaw Riders 112
- Distancing: Prostitutes 115
- Dilemma: Beggars 119
- 7 Accompanying 127
- Absent Friends 129
- 'That most ambiguous of personal pronouns' 129
- A question of genre 133
- Alter Ego or Mirror? 136
- Chance Companions 141
- 8 Concluding 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783080373
- 178308037X
- OCLC:
- 866252957
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