These narratives are packaged in a variety of textual mediums, from pop magazines to book length tales. They inherently reflect and refract conceptions of spatial and temporal locations, as well as how material bodies and landscapes come to signify in those spaces. This panel seeks papers that address contemporary travel narratives in hopes of interrogating how those narratives complicate notions of home and diaspora, mobility and fixity, as well as how bodies register along various axes of global identification. The 8th Annual Humanities Conference at University of California, Riverside.
Submissions addressing a variety of topics are welcome as well.