Postcolonial Travel Writing [electronic resource] : Critical Explorations /
Edwards, J.editor.
Graulund, R.editor.
With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Reading Postcolonial Travel Writing; 1 Beyond Imperial Eyes; 2 Disturbing Naipaul's 'Universal Civilization': Islam, Travel Narratives and the Limits of Westernization; 3 Travelling Home: Global Travel and the Postcolonial in the Travel Writing of Pico Iyer; 4 Travel Writing and Postcoloniality: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound; 5 Decolonizing Travel: James/Jan Morris's Geographies; 6 'Between somewhere and elsewhere': Sugar, Slate and Postcolonial Travel Writing
7 Where the Other Half Lives: Touring the Sites of Caribbean Spirit Possession in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place8 Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid's Travel Writing; 9 Post-Orientalism and the Past-Colonial in William Dalrymple's Travel Histories; 10 An Interview with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.
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