Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing

Rune Graulund, Justin David Edwards

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Abstract

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.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
UdgivelsesstedLiverpool
ForlagLiverpool University Press
Antal sider238
ISBN (Trykt)9781846318214
StatusUdgivet - 1 jan. 2012

Emneord

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • rejse
  • rejseberetning
  • experimentel litteratur
  • autentisitet
  • autentisk
  • postkolonial
  • global
  • globalisering
  • stoflighed
  • orientalisme
  • life writing

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