Caren Kaplan

Questions of Travel

Postmodern Discourses of Displacement

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Produktbeschreibung

""Questions of Travel" is a multilayered inquiry into the ideological function of metaphors in discourses of displacement. Kaplan richly historicizes these metaphors in order to explicate the situated meanings that inhere in the myriad kinds of displacement that characterizes contemporary writing and lives. Her meditations on the rhetorics of displacement--including nomadism, exile, migrancy, and other practices of movement across space--take the reader on an exciting excursion into the fraught politics of travel discourse."--Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 149mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780822318217
• ISBN-10: 0822318210
• Artikelnr.: 22293039

Autorenporträt

Caren Kaplan is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is coeditor (with Inderpal Grewal) of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices and Between Woman and Nation (with Norma Alarcón and Minoo Moallem).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Questions of Travel: An Introduction 1
1. "This Question of Moving": Modernist Exile / Postmodern Tourism 27
2. Becoming Nomad: Poststructuralist Deterritorializations 65
3. Traveling Theorists: Cosmopolitan Diasporas 101
4. Postmodern Geographies: Feminist Politics of Location 143
Notes 189
Bibliography 211
Index 233