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Mobility at large : globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing / Justin D. Edwards & Rune Graulund.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Justin D., 1970- author.
- Graulund, Rune, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel writing--History and criticism.
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mobility at Large explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing wherein the authors experiment with form, content and the politics of representation. In this, innovative travel texts by a range of writers from Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips to Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of experimental 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. As a result, Mobility at Large challenges those critics who dismiss the genre as inherently conservative and inextricably bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition. The book also documents a long and rich tradition of travel writing that existed well beyond the influence of Europe.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78138-770-2
- 1-78138-900-4
- 1-84631-773-8
- OCLC:
- 793510863
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