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The Cambridge introduction to travel writing
\"Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it comprises and is best understood on its own terms. To this end, Youngs surveys some of the most celebrated travel literature from the medieval period until the present, exploring themes such as the quest motif, the traveler's inner journey, postcolonial travel and issues of gender and sexuality. The text culminates in a chapter on twenty-first-century travel writing and offers predictions about future trends in the genre, making this Introduction an ideal guide for today's students, teachers and travel writing enthusiasts\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing
Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a specific aspect of travel writing - a recurrent motif, an organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include a discussion of representative travel texts to ensure that the volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors' introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future developments.
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The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six focusing on geographical areas of particular interest - Arabia, the Amazon, Tahiti, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; and three final chapters analysing some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing. Several invaluable tools are also provided, including an extensive list of further reading, and a detailed five-hundred year chronology listing important events and publications. This volume will be of interest to teachers and students alike.
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Hearing
Although hearing might be considered the most objective of the senses, its presence in travel narratives can be profoundly symbolic. How sounds are reported may tell us much about the traveller's subjectivity. Through a discussion of a range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, with a focus on H.V. Morton's In Search of England (1927), Amryl Johnson's Sequins for a Ragged Hem (1988) and Iain Sinclair's London Orbital (2002), this chapter examines how sound transmits ideas about the past and present, nature and technology and cultural identity.
Many critics and students of travel writing focus on its manifestation of the 'imperial eye', to use the term popularised by Mary Louise Pratt. Hearing would seem to be the most objective of all the senses. This chapter examines the representation of sounds in selected travel texts of the twentieth and twenty-first century in order to investigate their connotations and the contribution they make to other facets of the narrative, such as plot, theme and character. Migrant and diasporic travel writing furnishes several examples, with the protagonist feeling both a connection with and a distance from a culture or landscape overseas. The contrast between Barbara Joans' destructive mechanical invasion and Frederic Gros's harmonious, attentive stepping into nature illustrates how the sonic becomes emblematic. Sounds may be external but they also function in travel texts in profoundly symbolic ways.
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PUSHING AGAINST THE BLACK/WHITE LIMITS OF MAPS: AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITINGS OF TRAVEL
Journeys are central to African American experience and literature. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to African American travel accounts. This relative neglect seems due to three main factors: the low esteem in which travel writing continues to be held, despite the growth of scholarly activity in travel writing studies; the predominance in the African American canon of narratives of forced or economically determined movement; and the uneasy relationship between postcolonial and American Studies that has seen scholarship on postcolonial travel writing focus predominantly on texts from other former colonies and dominions. Rather than occupying a marginal role, however, travel writing, in its diverse forms, has been fundamental to African American literary history. Its generic indeterminacy makes it a powerful vehicle for the African American protagonist whose mobility constitutes a refusal to be fixed. Both the movement that is narrated and the porosity of the genre's borders complement the fluidity of the self whose (re)construction is in process through travel.
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Introduction
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines how nature writing helped shape ideas of nature in the West, and explores the ecological perspectives that inform the so-called 'new nature writing' of Robert Macfarlane and others. It explains some of the most commonly used literary forms and rhetorical modes, and also explores their possibilities and limitations. The book presents the forms that include the epistolary, the diary, the guidebook and tourist brochure, narrative, and the lecture. It describes the performative elements of the lectures, which were often delivered with theatrical flair and supported by visual aids such as panoramas and coloured slides. The book focuses on charity and gap-year tourism, and also examines the ethics and power relations involved in seeing. It discusses the different ways maps are deployed in travel texts, perhaps most consistently in guidebooks and in accounts of exploration.
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British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary
DIARIES INFORM AND IMPEL MUCH travel writing. They “show up in travel literature in numerous guises: as books, as part of books, as sources of books, not to mention as unpublished, though frequently shared, manuscripts.”¹ They perform various roles for the traveler, including the recording of information, the preservation of memories, and the authentication of experience, as well as serving as a medium for personal reflection. They also chart the stability or transformation of the self during the course of the journey.
Yet some studies of individual examples or of particular types notwithstanding, there has been little critical attention to
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