Political tourism and its texts
By: Maureen Moynagh
Series: Cultural spaces
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780802098450
Subjects: Politics in literature; Internationalism in literature; Politics and literature -- History -- 20th century; Authors -- Political and social views
Description: "Political Tourism and Its Texts looks at the writings of political tourists, travellers who seek solidarity with international political struggles. With reference to the travel writing of, among others, Nancy Cunard, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Ernesto Che Guevara, and Salman Rushdie, Maureen Moynagh demonstrates the ways in which political tourism can be a means of exploring the formation of transnational affiliations and commitments." "Drawing on sociological, postcolonial, post-structuralist, and feminist theories, Political Tourism and Its Texts is at once an insightful study of modern writers and the causes that inspired them, and a call to address, with political urgency, contemporary neo-imperialism and the politics of global inequality."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-297) and index