Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing

Name: Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing
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ISBN: 9780521867801

ISBN-10: 0521867800

ISBN-13: 9780521867801

Edition: 2006

Authors: Debbie Lisle

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To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents and press releases? Debbie Lisle argues that the formulations of genre, identity, geopolitics and history at work in contemporary travel writing are increasingly at odds with a cosmopolitan and multicultural world in which 'everybody travels'. Despite the forces of globalization, common stereotypes about 'foreignness' continue to shape the experience of modern travel. The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing is concerned with the way contemporary travelogues engage with, and try to…

Book details

List price: $129.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/2/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Debbie Lisle is Lecturer in Politics and Director of Cultural and Media Studies in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at the Queens University of Belfast. She received the BISA Best Thesis Prize for her PhD in International Relations at Keele University.



List of illustrations


Preface


'Travelogue'



Introduction: the global imaginary of contemporary travel writing



Between fact and fiction: the generic boundaries of travel writing



The cosmopolitan gaze: rearticulations of modern subjectivity



Civilising territory: geographies of safety and danger



Looking back: utopia, nostalgia and the myth of historical progress



Engaging the political: contemporary travel writing and the ethics of difference


Bibliography


Index