Questions of Travel - Postmodern Discourses of Displacement

"Questions of Travel" is a multilayered inquiry into the ideological function of metaphors in discourses of displacement. Kaplan richly historicizes these metaphors in order to explicate the situated meanings that inhere in the myriad kinds of displacement that characterizes contemporary writing and lives. Her meditations on the rhetorics of displacement--including nomadism, exile, migrancy, and other practices of movement across space--take the reader on an exciting excursion into the fraught politics of travel discourse."--Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz

Sommario

Preface ix

Questions of Travel: An Introduction 1

1. "This Question of Moving": Modernist Exile / Postmodern Tourism 27

2. Becoming Nomad: Poststructuralist Deterritorializations 65

3. Traveling Theorists: Cosmopolitan Diasporas 101

4. Postmodern Geographies: Feminist Politics of Location 143

Notes 189

Bibliography 211

Index 233

Info autore

Caren Kaplan is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is coeditor (with Inderpal Grewal) of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices and Between Woman and Nation (with Norma Alarcón and Minoo Moallem).

Riassunto

Explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "travelling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Caren Kaplan, KAPLAN, Caren Kaplan
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.08.1996
• EAN: 9780822318286
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1828-6
• Pagine: 256
• Peso: 680 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Translations of Mathematical M; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Translations of Mathematical M
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Kulturwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Soziale und ethische Themen