Full Description
Travel and Representation is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical work that recognizes the limits of representation, things that lie outside of representation and the continuing power of representation. The emphasis is on the myriad ways travelers/scholars employ representation in their writing/analyses as they re-think the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and the future.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
: Travel and Representation: Past, Present, Future
Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton and Garth Lean
Chapter 1. Repeating Visions: Hitchcock's Vertigo and San Francisco
Gemma Blackwood
Chapter 2. Curious Images from Northwest China: Ethics and Poetics in Carolyn Drake's Travel Photography
Darren Byler
Chapter 3. Astronauts and Avatars: Travels between the Physical, the Virtual and the Imagined
Denise Doyle
Chapter 4. Finitude before Finitude: The Case of Rousseau-Bougainville-Diderot
Benoît Dillet
Chapter 5. Bernhard Smith and Imagining the Pacific: The Art/Poetics of 'Discovery' and the Art/Poetics of Writing about Early European Travellers in the South Pacific
Russell Staiff
Chaprter 6. Searching for the Spirit of Bluegrass
Cynthia J. Miller
Chapter 7. The Transient Gaze - Perambulist Somnambulist (Sensual, Sonic and Aural Photographic Narratives)
Peter Day
Chapter 8. Snapshot Photography and a Gendered Poetics of the Beach 1900-1920s
Nicolá Goc
Chapter 9. Mediating Mythic Origins and Lived Localities: Connecting and Distancing on Roots/Homeland Tours
Jillian L. Powers
Chapter 10. Road Trip through the Heartland: Television Advertisements and the Australian Domestic Traveller
Christopher Drew
Index
