Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey

by John Zilcosky

Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how travel attempts to reconfigure the world and, in so doing, to become a metaphor for imagination, subjectivity, and representation itself.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802098061
• ISBN13: 9780802098061
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher