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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Justin D.
Other Authors: Graulund, Rune
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Travel writing > History and criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Travel writing
Reiseliteratur
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : travel revisited
  • Travelling with the Ohdaatje Bros.
  • Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips : global travel, then and now
  • Unhomely travels ; or, the haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W.G. Sebald
  • The world, my city : home grounds and global cities
  • Travel histories : from Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and beyond
  • Postscript : still mobile.

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