Issues in Travel Writing

Kristi Siegel

ISBN 10: 0820445800 / ISBN 13: 9780820445809

Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Nov 2002, 2002

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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, 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. 303 pp. Englisch.

Seller Inventory # 9780820445809

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Issues in Travel Writing
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Nov 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820445800
• ISBN 13: 9780820445809
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 230W x 160H x 34D millimeters 230 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 34 millimeters depth
• Weight: 450 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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, 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.

About the Author

The Editor: Kristi Siegel is Associate Professor of English at Mount Mary College in Wisconsin and earned her Ph.D. in modern studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Women's Autobiographies, Culture, Feminism (Peter Lang, 2001), and is currently editing a collection of essays about women's travel writing, Gender, Genre, Identity in Women's Travel Writing (Peter Lang, forthcoming). She also serves as general editor for the book series «Travel Writing Across the Disciplines» (Peter Lang), and has published various articles on postmodern, feminist, cultural, and autobiographical theory.