グローバル化と現代のトラベルライティング Mobility at Large : Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing

Edwards, Justin D./ Graulund, Rune

Liverpool University Press（2012/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 215 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781846318214
• DDC分類 808.06691

基本説明

Instead of focussing on best-selling texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson and others, this book examines a stand of innovative contemporary travel writing that experiments with form, content and the pollitics of representation.

Full Description

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 strategies to work through questions of movement and the politics of personal identity in relation to the complex interlocutions of space, place and subjectivity. As a result, Mobility at Large challenges those critics who dismiss the genre as inherently conservative and inextricably bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition. The book also documents a long and rich tradition of travel writing that existed well beyond the influence of Europe.

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
Index