Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement

by Jon Bird (Editor), Barry Curtis (Editor), Melinda Mash (Editor), Tim Putnam (Editor), George Robertson (Editor)

Overview

Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a 'tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures. Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land. The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the 'other'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134912971
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/08/2005
Series:	FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Edited by Jon Bird, Barry Curtis, Melinda Mash, Tim Putnam, George Robertson, Lisa Tickner

Table of Contents

Contributors: Sunpreet Arshi, Stephen Bann, Jon Bird, Iain Chambers, Annie E. Coombes, Barry Curtis, Nelia Dias, Carmen Kirstein, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Melinda Mash, Anne McClintock, Chantal Mouffe, Riaz Naqvi, Rob Nixon, Claire Pajaczlowska, Falk Pankow Grisela Pollock, Tim Putnam, Jacques Ranciere, George Robertson, Adrian Rifkin, Madan Sarup, Lisa Tickner, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Peter Wollen