Travel writing, form, and empire : the poetics and politics of mobility /
edited by Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst.
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
- vi, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge research in travel writing ; 1 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE The Discursive Terrains of Empire -- 1. Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester John / Mary Baine Campbell -- 2. Richard Hakluyt's Foreign Relations / Mary Fuller -- 3. Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636 / Jack Warwick -- 4. The Page as Private/Public Space in Mariana Starke's Travel Writings on Italy / Susan Pickford -- 5. The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of Power / Ali Behdad -- 6. Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin / Eadaoin Agnew -- 7. Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau's Eastern Travels / Lesa Scholl -- pt. TWO Unravelling Forms of Travel -- 8. Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in Ecuador / David Scott -- 9. Deep Maps: Travelling on the Spot / Peter Hulme -- 10. Making It Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's Artifact / Tim Youngs -- 11. Reconciling Strangers: White Australian Travel Narratives and the Semiotics of Empathy / Robert Clarke -- 12. To Witness and Remember: Mapping Reconciliation Travel / Peter Bishop -- 13. The Political Tourist's Archive: Susan Meiselas's Images of Nicaragua / Maureen Moynagh -- 14. Road to Nowhere? Los autonautas de la cosmopista by Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop / Claire Lindsay.