Mobility at Large : Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing
Justin D. Edwards
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (375 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Travel Revisited; 1 Travelling with the Ondaatje Bros; 2 Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips: Global Travel, Then and Now; 3 Unhomely Travels; or, the Haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald; 4 The World, My City: Home Grounds and Global Cities; 5 Travel Histories - From Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and Beyond; Postscript: Still Mobile; Bibliography; Notes; Index. - Mobility at Large explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing wherein the authors experiment with form, content and the politics of representation. In this, innovative travel texts by a range of writers - from Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips to Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller - transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of experimental textual st
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| ISBN | 9781846318214
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