Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature #18)

Synopsis

Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th–21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share a strong central interest in the ways in which the narratives of travel contribute to the imagining of ethnic encounters and how they have acted as sites of transformation and transculturation from the early nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to discussing textual representations of travel and migration, the volume also addresses the ways in which cultural texts themselves travel and are reconstructed in various cultural settings. The analyses are particularly attentive to the issues of globalization and migration, which provide a general frame for interpretation. What distinguishes the volume from existing books is its concern with travel and migration as ways of forging transcultural identities that are able to subvert existing categorizations and binary models of identity formation. In so doing, it pays particular attention to the performance of identity in various spaces of cultural encounter, ranging from North America to the East of Europe, putting particular emphasis on the representation of intercultural and ethnic encounters.

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781135052331

Related ISBNs:

9780203487730, 9780415823050, 9780415823050, 9781138547988, 9781138547988

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/20/19

Copyrighted By:

Taylor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Travel, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Eleftheria Arapoglou

Edited by:

Mónika Fodor

Edited by:

Jopi Nyman