Debbie Lisle

Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 resolve, familiar struggles about global politics such as the protection of human rights, the promotion of democracy, the management of equality within multiculturalism and the reduction of inequality. This is a thoroughly interdisciplinary book that draws from international relations, literary theory, political theory, geography, anthropology and history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511258343
• Artikelnr.: 38213119

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the global imaginary of contemporary travel writing
2. Between fact and fiction: the generic limits of travel writing
3. The cosmopolitan gaze: re-articulations of modern subjectivity
4. Civilizing territory: geographies of safety and danger
5. Looking back: utopia, nostalgia and the myth of historical progress
6. Conclusion: engaging the political: contemporary travel writing and the ethics of difference.