The Long Journey : : Exploring Travel and Travel Writing / / ed. by Maria Pia Di Bella, Brian Yothers.
Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, lite...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I MEMORY AND TRAUMA
- Chapter 1 WALKING MEMORY Berlin’s “Holocaust Trail”
- Chapter 2 TOURING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
- Chapter 3 A WARTIME CINEMATIC RECREATION OF THE JOURNEY LINKING CHINA AND JAPAN IN THE MODERN ERA
- PART II VISUALIZING OTHERNESS
- Chapter 4 SEEING A DIFFERENCE Spectacles of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Illustrated Travel Books
- Chapter 5 A BEGINNING, TWO ENDS, AND A THICKENED MIDDLE Journeys in Afghanistan from Byron to Hosseini
- Chapter 6 NEW MEN, OLD EUROPE Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing
- Chapter 7 AMONG CANNIBALS AND HEADHUNTERS Jack London in Melanesia
- PART III CREATING AND RECOVERING PERSPECTIVE
- Chapter 8 FORGETTING LONDON Paris, Cultural Cartography, and Late Victorian Decadence
- Chapter 9 IN THE EYES OF SOME BRITONS Aleppo, an Enlightenment City
- Chapter 10 An Ordinary Place: Aboriginality and ‘Ordinary’ Australia in Travel Writing of the 1990s
- Chapter 11 “THE RIGHT SORT OF WOMAN” British Women Travel Writers and Sports
- CONCLUSION Interminable Journeys
- INDEX