Travel Writing and the Transnational Author [electronic resource] /
Knowles, S.author.
Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Travel Writing and Transnationalism; Part I: Travelling Out; 1 Michael Ondaatje: The 'Prodigal-Foreigner', Reconstruction, and Transnational Boundaries; 2 Vikram Seth: The Performing Wanderer and Transnational Disintegration; Part II: Travelling On; 3 Amitav Ghosh: Uncertain Translation and Transnational Confusion; 4 Salman Rushdie: Political Dualities and Imperial Transnationalisms; Conclusion: Transnational Literature on the Move; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie.
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
Seth, Vikram, 1952-
Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-
Rushdie, Salman
Literature   .
Fiction.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Oriental literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Asian Literature.