Narratives of Cyprus : modern travel writing and cultural encounters since Lawrence Durrell / by Jim Bowman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowman, Jim, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel writing--History and criticism.

Travel writing.

Cyprus--Description and travel.

Cyprus.

Cyprus--Foreign public opinion, Western.

Cyprus--Social conditions--1960-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.

Summary:

"Unease has marked relations between modern travel writers and the people of Cyprus. Visitors like Lawrence Durrell, Colin Thubron, Christopher Hitchens and Sebastian Junger have registered the effects of political strife on both the people of the island and those who visit from abroad. Their accounts demonstrate how geopolitical realities--such as colonization, insurgency, inter-communal warfare, and now decades of militarized 'peace'--shape the narrating self and its relations to others. Here, Jim Bowman assesses the effects of Cypriot history on writings about the island through an analysis of memoirs, travelogues, political journalism, guide books and ethnographies. Through this examination of popular texts, Bowman shows how a western and politicized image of Cyprus has been created, increasingly divorced from the realities experienced by the local population. Narratives of Cyprus is an important reassessment of Cyprus' place in British culture, and will be of interest to scholars and students of Anthropology, English Literature and Ethnographic Studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Front Cover; Autho Bio; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustration; Acknowledgement; 1. The Cultural Stage for Stories of Conflict: Narrated Travel Writing and Modern Cyprus; 2. Seductive, Disreputable yet Resilient: Modern Travel Writing and its Critics; 3. Fashioned for Story's Sake: Lawrence Durrell's Bitter Lemons and the Lay of a Landscape Troped and Narrated for Posterity; 4. Narrating from an Intimate Distance: Turk in Colin Thubron's Journey Into Cyprus; 5. Day-tripping to the Dark Side: Narrating an Island Divided

6. Toward an Ethics of Encounter for Travel and Travel WritingNotes; Bibliography; Plates; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755625796

075562579X

9780857736758

0857736752

OCLC:

1158584824