Travel worlds
Subtitle: journeys in contemporary cultural politics
By: edited by Raminder Kaur and John Hutnyk.
Contributors: Kaur, Raminder.; Hutnyk, John, 1961-
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Tourism -- Social aspects.
Description: Everyone's Got a Traveller's Tale, but Travel Worlds tells them with a sting: African-American musicians head East for Kung-Fu kicks while paedophiles go for cheap sex pilgrimage; Western bible-bashers adopt missionary positions in India while heroic Saint George signs on as an Arab soldier in Britain; the scars of Partition mock the protocols of transit, while nomadic insurgents resist the Bangladeshi nation state with lyrical persuasion; Kula Shaker and Madonna trinketize the 'Orient' while dead tourists exchange values with travelling 'terrorists'; British Mirpuris and Black women travel back to the 'Old Country' and beyond in ways that are not quite as they seem; and ethnographers collide with tourists in the carousel of Goa's resorts.

Includes poetry and fiction alongside academic essays, this book refuses simplistic dichotomies of north/south and east/west and confronts head on existing conventions of writing about travel in post-colonial, literary and cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-181) and index.