The long journey: exploring travel and travel writing

Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, lite...

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Weitere Verfasser: Di Bella, Maria Pia (HerausgeberIn), Yothers, Brian 1975- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, literary scholars, social historians, and other scholars to illuminate travel writing in all its forms. With studies ranging from colonial adventurism to the legacies of the Holocaust, The Long Journey offers a unique dual focus on experience and genre as it applies to three key realms: memory and trauma, confrontations with the Other, and the cultivation of cultural perspective
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 210 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781789209372
DOI:10.1515/9781789209372