The Long Journey : Exploring Travel and Travel Writing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Bella, Maria Pia.

Contributor:

Yothers, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel writers.

Travel writing.

Voyages and travels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2020.

Summary:

Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, literary scholars, social historians, and other scholars to illuminate travel writing in all its forms. With studies ranging from colonial adventurism to the legacies of the Holocaust, The Long Journey offers a unique dual focus on experience and genre as it applies to three key realms: memory and trauma, confrontations with the Other, and the cultivation of cultural perspective.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

PART I MEMORY AND TRAUMA

Chapter 1 WALKING MEMORY Berlin’s “Holocaust Trail”

Chapter 2 TOURING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Chapter 3 A WARTIME CINEMATIC RECREATION OF THE JOURNEY LINKING CHINA AND JAPAN IN THE MODERN ERA

PART II VISUALIZING OTHERNESS

Chapter 4 SEEING A DIFFERENCE Spectacles of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Illustrated Travel Books

Chapter 5 A BEGINNING, TWO ENDS, AND A THICKENED MIDDLE Journeys in Afghanistan from Byron to Hosseini

Chapter 6 NEW MEN, OLD EUROPE Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing

Chapter 7 AMONG CANNIBALS AND HEADHUNTERS Jack London in Melanesia

PART III CREATING AND RECOVERING PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 8 FORGETTING LONDON Paris, Cultural Cartography, and Late Victorian Decadence

Chapter 9 IN THE EYES OF SOME BRITONS Aleppo, an Enlightenment City

Chapter 10 An Ordinary Place: Aboriginality and ‘Ordinary’ Australia in Travel Writing of the 1990s

Chapter 11 “THE RIGHT SORT OF WOMAN” British Women Travel Writers and Sports

CONCLUSION Interminable Journeys

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-80758-661-8

1-78920-937-4

OCLC:

1182021376