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Long Journey - Exploring Travel and Travel Writing

English · Hardback

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"Originally published in Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing"--T.p. verso.

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Introduction

Maria Pia Di Bella and Brian Yothers

Part I: Memory and Trauma

Chapter 1. Walking Memory: Berlin's 'Holocaust Trail'

Maria Pia Di Bella

Chapter 2. Touring the African Diaspora

Cheryl Finley

Chapter 3. A Wartime Cinematic: Recreation of the Journey Linking China and Japan in the Modern Era

Joshua A. Fogel

Part II: Visualizing Otherness

Chapter 4. Seeing a Difference: Spectacles of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Illustrated Travel Books

Julia Thomas

Chapter 5. A Beginning, Two Ends, and a Thickened Middle Journeys in Afghanistan from Byron to Hosseini

Graham Huggan

Chapter 6. New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing

Wendy Bracewell

Chapter 7. Among Cannibals and Headhunters: Jack London in Melanesia

Keith Newlin

Part III: Creating and Recovering Perspective

Chapter 8. Forgetting London: Paris, Cultural Cartography, and Late Victorian Decadence

Alex Murray

Chapter 9. In The Eyes of Some Britons: Aleppo, an Enlightenment City

Mohammad Sakhnini

Chapter 10. An Ordinary Place

Robert Clarke

Chapter 11. The Right Sort of Woman: British Women Travel Writers and Sports

Precious McKenzie Stearns

Conclusion

Pramod Nayar


About the author










Brian Yothers is a Professor of English and the Chair of the Department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is co-editor  of the journal Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing.


Summary

Travel writing has, for centuries, comprised 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.

Product details

Authors Maria Pia DI Yothers Bella, Maria Pia Yothers Di Bella
Assisted by Maria Pia Bella (Editor), Maria Pia Di Bella (Editor), Maria Pia Di Bella (Editor), Brian Yothers (Editor)
Publisher BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.10.2020
 
EAN 9781789209358
ISBN 978-1-78920-935-8
No. of pages 328
Subjects Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology
Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales

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