Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing

Informationen zum Autor Robert Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in the English Studies Programme, School of Humanities, and Co-Director of the Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath, University of Tasmania. He is the author of Travel Writing from Black Australia: Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality (2016), and editor of Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Power and Representation in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures (Cambridge, 2009). He has been a guest editor for special issues on travel writing for Postcolonial Studies and Studies in Travel Writing. Klappentext This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing. Zusammenfassung The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing provides a variety of perspectives and approaches on a new and exciting field of academic scholarship in the humanities! appealing to students! graduates and scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Towards a genealogy of postcolonial travel writing: an introduction Robert Clarke; Part I. Departures: 2. Postcolonial travel writing and postcolonial theory Justin D. Edwards; 3. Walk this way: postcolonial travel writing of the environment Jill Didur; 4. History, memory, and trauma in postcolonial travel writing Robert Clarke; Part II. Performances: 5. Diasporic 'returnees' and imagined homelands Srilata Ravi; 6. Diplomats as postcolonial travellers Eva-Marie Kröller; 7. The metropolitan journeys of Francophone postcolonial travellers Charles Forsdick; 8. African American travel writing Tim Youngs; 9. Seeking the sacred in postcolonial travel writing Asha Sen; 10. Contemporary postcolonial journeys on the trails of colonial travellers Christopher Keirstead; Part III. Peripheries: 11. Postcolonial travel journalism and the new media Brian Creech; 12. Travel magazines and settler (post)colonialism Anna Johnston; 13. Refugee and asylum seeker narratives as travel writing April Shemak; 14. Travellers in postcolonial fiction Stephen M. Levin; 15. Afterword Mary Louise Pratt....

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• Authors: Robert (University of Oxford) Clarke, Robert (University of Tasmania) Clarke
• Assisted by: Robert Clarke (Editor), Robert (University of Oxford) Clarke (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781107153394
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15339-4
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary studies: postcolonial literature