Mobility at Large : Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing.

This book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing that experiments with form, content and the politics of representation. Writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement...

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Main Author: Edwards, Justin D.
Other Authors: Graulund, Rune
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.
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Summary:This book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing that experiments with form, content and the politics of representation. Writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of original textual strategies to work through questions of movement and the politics of personal identity in relation to the complex interlocutions of space, place and subjectivity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (225 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781846317736
1846317738
9781781387702
1781387702
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.