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"Originally published in Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing"--T.p. verso.
Sommario
Download PDF of Table of Contents 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
Info autore
Maria Pia Di Bella is a senior research scholar at IRIS-EHESS, Paris and Research Affiliate at the Harvard Divinity School. She is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing.
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.
Riassunto
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.
