Postcolonial travel writing
Subtitle: critical explorations
By: edited by Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230241190
Subjects: Engels; Travelers' writings, Commonwealth (English); Post-colonialisme; Commonwealth prose literature (English); History and criticism; Reisverhalen; Postkolonialisme; Récit de voyage d'expression anglaise; Études diverses; Travel in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Travelers' writings, English
Description: Postcolonial Travel Writing challenges prevailing notions of travel writing as intrinsically colonial and Eurocentric, exploring the works of writers including Jamaica Kincaid, Caryl Phillips, V.S. Naipaul, Pico Iyer and Jan Morris as rich and fascinating examples of the genre. Featuring original interviews with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra, this exciting collection by internationally recognized scholars in the field offers a comprehensive study of postcolonial travel writing, from literature and memoir to essays and travel histories. The volume stands as an innovative benchmark study of future inquiries into the field, and will spark a much-needed rethinking of this vibrant and volatile genre.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond Imperial eyes / Claire Lindsay; title: Disturbing Naipaul's 'universal civilization' : Islam, travel narratives and the limits of westernization / Bidhan Roy; title: Travelling home : global travel and the postcolonial in the travel writing of Pico Iyer / Rune Graulund; title: Travel writing and postcoloniality : Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic sound / María Lourdes López Ropero; title: Decolonizing travel : James/Jan Morris's geographies / Richard Phillips; title: 'Between somewhere and elsewhere' : sugar, slate and postcolonial travel writing / Justin D. Edwards; title: Where the other half lives : touring the sites of Caribbean spirit possession in Jamaica Kincaid's A small place / Anne Shroder; title: Floral diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid's travel writing / Zoran Pećić; title: Post-Orientalism and the past-colonial in William Dalrymple's travel histories / Paul Smethurst; title: An interview with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra / Tabish Khair.