Travel Writing and Re-Enactment - Echotourism

It explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. These re-enactments are quests for aura meant to capture a sense of historical profundity. However, they are also precarious and contingent, and force travellers to navigate historical change in densely performative ways.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Belated Explorers
Chapter Two: Echotourists and Anti-Tourism
Chapter Three: Echotourism and Masculinity
Chapter Four: Echotourism and Women Writers
Chapter Five: Echotourism and Postmodernism
Conclusion: Echotourism and Middlebrow Culture
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Lucas Tromly is an associate professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. He has published in the fields of modernism, comics studies, and Asian North American literature.

Summary

It explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. These re-enactments are quests for aura meant to capture a sense of historical profundity. However, they are also precarious and contingent, and force travellers to navigate historical change in densely performative ways.

Product details

• Authors: Lucas Tromly
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032437088
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243708-8
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Tourism industry, Retail and wholesale industries