With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2010

ISBN

9780230294769

Topic

Literatura

Subtopic

Teoría de la crítica literaria

Cover
Postcolonial Travel Writing
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Postcolonial Travel Writing
1 Beyond Imperial Eyes
2 Disturbing Naipaul's 'Universal Civilization': Islam, Travel Narratives and the Limits of Westernization
3 Travelling Home: Global Travel and the Postcolonial in the Travel Writing of Pico Iyer
4 Travel Writing and Postcoloniality: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound
5 Decolonizing Travel: James/Jan Morris's Geographies
6 'Between somewhere and elsewhere': Sugar, Slate and Postcolonial Travel Writing
7 Where the Other Half Lives: Touring the Sites of Caribbean Spirit Possession in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place
8 Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid's Travel Writing
9 Post-Orientalism and the Past-Colonial in William Dalrymple's Travel Histories
10 An Interview with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra
Index