Title: Mobility at large : globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing /
Authors: Edwards, Justin D., 1970-; Graulund, Rune.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Travel writing History and criticism.
Abstract: Examines the strand of contemporary travel writing in which the authors experiment with form, content and the politics of representation, transforming the genre and challenging those who dismiss it as inherently conservative and bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition.
Contents: Introduction : travel revisited -- Travelling with the Ohdaatje Bros. -- Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips : global travel, then and now -- Unhomely travels ; or, the haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W.G. Sebald -- The world, my city : home grounds and global cities -- Travel histories : from Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and beyond -- Postscript : still mobile.