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Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America - Claire Lindsay

Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America

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Buch | Hardcover
186 Seiten
2009
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-99121-6 (ISBN)
CHF 238,00 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on ideas from many disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural studies, this book considers contemporary journey narratives from Latin America through a series of case studies concerning four key sites of travel, each of which engenders particular forms of travel and travel narrative.
This book considers how contemporary travelers from Latin America write their journeys at and about home. How do Latin American writers of the late twentieth-century negotiate the hybrid and volatile category of travel writing, which has been shaped in large part by myriad Euro-American travelers? How do they engage with the enduring myths about the region perpetuated by their imperial/ist predecessors? And, if not journeys of expansion or exploration, on precisely what kinds of ‘travel’ do their own journeys rest? Drawing on ideas from many disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural studies, this book considers contemporary journey narratives from Latin America through a series of case studies concerning four key sites of travel, each of which engenders particular forms of travel and travel narrative: Patagonia, the Andes, Mexico and the Mexico-US border. This book thus explores the complex practice and representation of journeys in the region by writers including Luis Sepúlveda, Mempo Giardinelli, Andrés Ruggeri, Ana García Bergua, Silvia Molina, María Luisa Puga, Rubén Martínez and Luis Alberto Urrea. In doing so, it explores questions relating to mobility, representation, and globalization that are of widespread concern across the world today.

Claire Lindsay is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Literature at University College London.

List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America Chapter 2: In (Postmodern) Patagonia Chapter 3: Spectacular Andean Adventures Chapter 4: Unhomely Mexico Chapter 5: Real Ethnographies Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.1.2010
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Travel Writing
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 385 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-415-99121-8 / 0415991218
ISBN-13 978-0-415-99121-6 / 9780415991216
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