Questions of travel : postmodern discourses of displacement / Caren Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Caren, 1955-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel in literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "traveling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism.Addressing a wide range of writers, including Paul Fussell, Edward Said, James Clifford, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Ga

Contents:

QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL An Introduction

1 THIS QUESTION OF MOVING Modernist Exile/Postmodern Tourism

2 BECOMING NOMAD Poststructuralist Deterritorializations

3 TRAVELING THEORISTS Cosmopolitan Diasporas

4 POSTMODERN GEOGRAPHIES Feminist Politics of Location.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-231) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062512

9781283062510

1283062518

9780822382041

0822382040

OCLC:

213455202