Crossing boundaries
Subtitle: postmodern travel literature
By: Alison Russell.
Publisher: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.; American prose literature -- History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Travel writing -- History.; Travel in literature.
Description: "Crossing Boundaries examines experimental novels about travel by William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon as precursors of innovative contemporary travel narratives, represented by the work of authors such as Bruce Chatwin, William Least Heat-Moon, and William T. Vollmann, among others.

While these texts may be red as cultural criticism - functioning as a collective portrait of the world at a time when global space seems exhausted, dominated by multinational corporations, and threatened with ecological devastation - they also serve as new Waldens, guide-books that show us how to travel meaningfully in an era of disorientation and blurred boundaries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-226) and index.