Issues in travel writing : empire, spectacle, and displacement
by Kristi Siegel
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The increased attention now devoted to studying travel writing and theory follows on the heels of a growing critical interest in autobiography (a genre closely aligned to travel writing); commentary on multiculturalism, nationalism, colonialism, and post-colonialism; and in spectacle and visual culture. The essays collected here address these diverse impulses and focus provocatively on issues of colonialism/post-colonialism, empire, identity, culture, spectacle, pilgrimage, map theory, show more narrative theory, diaspora, and displacement, and discuss writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, Jean Baudrillard, Alexis de Tocqueville, Simone de Beauvoir, V. S. Naipaul, Evelyn Waugh, John McPhee, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Walter Benjamin, Constance Fredericka Gordon Cumming, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen, Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Richardson, Jonathan Raban, Paul Theroux, Bruce Chatwin, and Doris Lessing. show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, Travel, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 808.06691 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Rhetoric and anthologies By Type Of Writing Writing non-fiction (by topic) Writing about history/writing biographies
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- G151 .I86 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Travel. Voyages and travels (General)
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