The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 2 November 2006
- ISBN 9780521867801
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 234x156x24 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.
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To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents and press releases? Debbie Lisle argues that the formulations of genre, identity, geopolitics and history at work in contemporary travel writing are increasingly at odds with a cosmopolitan and multicultural world in which 'everybody travels'. Despite the forces of globalization, common stereotypes about 'foreignness' continue to shape the experience of modern travel. The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing is concerned with the way contemporary travelogues engage with, and try to resolve, familiar struggles about global politics such as the protection of human rights, the promotion of democracy, the management of equality within multiculturalism and the reduction of inequality. This is a thoroughly interdisciplinary book that draws from international relations, literary theory, political theory, geography, anthropology and history.
'The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing is an important extension of critical international relations via an encounter with cultural studies. Its rigorous demonstration of the way popular culture makes international power possible, through an incisive analysis of how contemporary travel writing reproduces colonial relations, is an intellectual journey with the possibility of new political visions at the end of the line.' David Campbell, Professor of Cultural and Political Geography, Durham University
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: the global imaginary of contemporary travel writing; 2. Between fact and fiction: the generic limits of travel writing; 3. The cosmopolitan gaze: re-articulations of modern subjectivity; 4. Civilizing territory: geographies of safety and danger; 5. Looking back: utopia, nostalgia and the myth of historical progress; 6. Conclusion: engaging the political: contemporary travel writing and the ethics of difference.
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