Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions

By examining non-fiction travel narratives and travel fictions in relationship to each other, Daniel Cooper Alarcón highlights the sophisticated ways that both types of writing have anticipated ideas central to critical studies of travel, tourism, and migration.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions: The Prescient Case of Paul Bowles
Chapter Two: The Ruins of Manifest Destiny
Chapter Three: Travel Writing and the Tramp
Chapter Four: Travel Fictions and Literary Travelers: Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues
Chapter Five: Jasmine's Shadow World of Migration
Chapter Six: Small Place, Smallest Woman
Chapter Seven: A Land Made of Its Representations
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Daniel Cooper Alarcón is associate professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Summary

By examining non-fiction travel narratives and travel fictions in relationship to each other, Daniel Cooper Alarcón highlights the sophisticated ways that both types of writing have anticipated ideas central to critical studies of travel, tourism, and migration.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Cooper Alarcon, Daniel Cooper Alarcón
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2024
• EAN: 9781666933772
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-377-2
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Literature: history & criticism, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Anthologies: general, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Subjects & Themes / Places