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Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era engages feminist, temporal, and narrative theories to offer fresh examinations of interwar-era accounts by women about travel and movement and considers the use and limitations of time as a subversive force in their texts.
This book makes a significant contribution to the under-examined study of women's travel writing between the wars and synthesises and applies a variety of feminist, narrative, and postcolonial theories to excavate new understandings of the intersection between women, travel, and time in writing. The book studies the emergence of the aviatrix after the Great War and moves through to the representations of war in women's travel on the brink of World War II. Each chapter offers a unique theoretical framework and examines how experiences of time impact perceptions of women's bodies and identities, their engagement with history and discourse, and the problematic influence on colonialism.
Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era is essential reading to any student or researcher in the field of women's travel writing, as well as scholars of gender studies, war and interwar history, and cultural heritage.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Space, Time, and Women's Travel Writing between the Wars Chapter 2: The Time of the Aviatrix: Time, Space, and Women's Negotiations of Representations of Flight Chapter 3: Nomadic Selves: Time and the Body in Vita Sackville-West's Passenger to Teheran and Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse Chapter 4: Tyrannical Clocks: Gendered Time, Imperialism, and Narrative in Beryl Markham's West with the Night and Karen Blixen's Out of Africa Chapter 5: Reclaiming the Past: Gender and Nostalgia in Kate O'Brien's Farewell Spain and Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Conclusion: New Histories and New Futures for Women, Travel, and Writing
About the author
Ann Catherine Hoag is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She has published articles on women writers of the interwar era and contemporary migrant fiction.
Summary
Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era offers fresh examinations of interwar era accounts by women about travel and movement, and is essential reading for students and researchers of women’s travel writing, as well as scholars of gender studies, war and interwar history, and cultural heritage.
