Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement

by Caren Kaplan

Book Overview

Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "traveling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318210
• ISBN13: 9780822318217
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"