| Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing Contributor(s): Edwards, Justin D. (Author), Graulund, Rune (Author) |
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ISBN: 1846318211 ISBN-13: 9781846318214 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Travel - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 808.066 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 215 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mobility at Large explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing wherein the authors experiment with form, content and the politics of representation. In this, innovative travel texts by a range of writers - from Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips to Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller - transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of experimental textual strategies to work through questions of movement and the politics of personal identity in relation to the complex interlocutions of space, place and subjectivity. As a result, Mobility at Large challenges those critics who dismiss the genre as inherently conservative and inextricably bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition. The book also documents a long and rich tradition of travel writing that existed well beyond the influence of Europe. |