Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing

ISBN-13: 9780367871086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 254 str.

Miguel A. Cabanas; Jeanne Dubino; Veronica Salles-Reese

Opis

This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, via an analysis of cases across geographical and historical boundaries.　Essays explore the ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about nation

Spis treści

Introduction  Miguel A. Cabañas, Jeanne Dubino, Veronica Salles-Reese, and Gary Totten  Part I: Travel and the Politics of Perception  1. "The Pain of 40 Lashes": Anton Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island and the Emergence of the Russian Prison System  David G. Farley  2. Traveling Lies: Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia and Adrián Giménez Hutton’s La Patagonia de Chatwin  Miguel A. Cabañas  3. "Road to Road": Syncretism and the Politics of Identity in M. G. Vassanji’s A Place Within  Shizen Ozawa  Part II: Gender and Sexuality  4. Clashing Tastes: European Femininity and Race in Maria Graham’s Journal of a Voyage to Brazil  M. Soledad Caballero  5. Exceptional Perspectives: National Identity in US Women’s Travel Accounts of Greece, 1840-1913  Christopher Richter  6. Great Mirrors Shattered: John Whittier Treat and the Politics of Queer Travels through Gay Japan  Mark DeStephano  Part III: Race, Ethnicity, and Otherness  7. "A Herd of Deer Chased by the Hunters": Travel Writers on the Dilemma of Indian Removal  Donald Ross  8. Racial Identity, Travel, and Music in Philippa Duke Schuyler’s Adventures in Black and White  Joyce E. Kelley  9. The Dystopia of Border Crossings in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway  Diana Gumbar  Part IV: Empire  10. Traveling to Ithaca  Jonathan S. Burgess  11. Representations of the Near East in Travel Writing and Conjectural History during the Late Eighteenth Century  Pamela M. Barber  12. "picturesque in its motley processions": The Infrastructure of Empire in Emily Eden’s Up the Country  Jeanne Dubino  13. Seeing with a New Lens: Louise Arner Boyd’s Polar Expeditions  Michele Willman  Part V: Travel, Globalization, and Geopolitic

O autorze

Miguel A. Cabañas is Associate Professor of Latin American and Chicano/Latino Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies at Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA.

Veronica Salles-Reese is Associate Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, USA.

Gary Totten is Professor and Chair of the English Department at North Dakota State University, USA.