Postcolonial Travel Writing : Critical Explorations.

Postcolonial Travel Writing : Critical Explorations.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Justin D.
Other Authors: Graulund, Rune
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
Literature > Philosophy.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature.
Fiction.
America-Literatures.
African literature.
fiction (general genre)
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature > Philosophy
Literature
Fiction
Culture > Study and teaching
African literature
Commonwealth prose literature (English)
Postcolonialism in literature
Travel in literature
Travelers' writings, Commonwealth (English)
Travelers' writings, English
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.

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