Crossings
Subtitle: travel, art, literature, politics
By: edited by Rudolphus Teeuwen
Contributors: Teeuwen, Rudolphus
Publisher: Bookman Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Taipei, Taiwan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9789575869540
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Congresses; Travel in literature
Notes: Selections from the conference titled: "Beyond Borders II: an International Conference on Art, Literature, and Travel", held May 27-28, 2000 at National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Maps, traffic, and representation: the Iberian Pacific in the sixteenth century  -- Mercedes Maroto Camino; title: The voice of experience and the weight of tradition: images of China in Swedish travel writing, 1749-1781  -- Kenneth Nyberg -- "Birds without song, flowers without smell": British travelers, American nature, democracy, and the politics of travel / -- Joseph Eaton; title: Theodor Dreiser and Emily Post  -- Andrew S. Gross; title: Homeward bound: Australian literary travels in Asia  -- Robin Gerster; title: Travel, war, and the sureness of taste: Paul Fussell against modernity  -- Rudolphus Teeuwen; title: To leave or not to leave?: the concept of departure in music  -- George B. Stauffer; title: Art and politics  -- Marion Eggert; title: Refugees and space travelers in Asian-in-American writing  -- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim; title: Travel writing and cultural interpretation: Chiang Yee's Silent traveller books and his American experience  -- Da Zheng; title: "I do not mind placing myself in a melting pot so long as I do not get boiled": mutual authentication of the Silent traveller and the American landscape  -- Su-Ching Huang; title: Imagining travel after feminist ethnography  -- Deborah A. Gordon; title: Salman Rushdie's magical journey through Kashmir -- Eric K.W. Yu.