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Postcolonial Travel Writing : Critical Explorations / edited by J. Edwards, R. Graulund.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Edwards, Justin D., 1970-
Graulund, Rune.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Literature--Philosophy.
Literature.
Culture--Study and teaching.
Culture.
Fiction.
America--Literatures.
America.
African literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
World Literature.
Fiction Literature.
North American Literature.
African Literature.
Local Subjects:
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
World Literature.
Fiction Literature.
North American Literature.
African Literature.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (203 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2011.
Place of Publication:
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.
Contents:
Cover; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Reading Postcolonial Travel Writing; 1 Beyond Imperial Eyes; 2 Disturbing Naipaul's 'Universal Civilization': Islam, Travel Narratives and the Limits of Westernization; 3 Travelling Home: Global Travel and the Postcolonial in the Travel Writing of Pico Iyer; 4 Travel Writing and Postcoloniality: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound; 5 Decolonizing Travel: James/Jan Morris's Geographies; 6 'Between somewhere and elsewhere': Sugar, Slate and Postcolonial Travel Writing
7 Where the Other Half Lives: Touring the Sites of Caribbean Spirit Possession in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place8 Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid's Travel Writing; 9 Post-Orientalism and the Past-Colonial in William Dalrymple's Travel Histories; 10 An Interview with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra; Index
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786612998393
9781282998391
1282998390
9780230294769
0230294766
OCLC:
700707112

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