Travel And Identity Studies In Literature Culture And Language
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Author |
: Jakub Lipski |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 114 |
Release |
: 2018-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319740218 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319740210 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language by : Jakub Lipski
This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture. Collectively, the chapters ponder such notions as self and other, race, centre and periphery, thus shedding new light on a number of issues that are highly relevant in the context of the ongoing migration crisis. The contributors employ a diverse range of theoretical standpoints – from close reading to deconstruction, from historically informed approaches to linguistic analysis – and thus offer a nuanced panorama of these issues, especially from the nineteenth century onwards.
Author |
: Laura Nenzi |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2008-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824831172 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824831179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Excursions in Identity by : Laura Nenzi
In the Edo period (1600–1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person’s place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday. Cultured travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries wrote travel memoirs to celebrate their profession as belle-lettrists. For women in particular the open road and the blank page of the diary offered a precious opportunity to create personal hierarchies defined less by gender and more by culture and refinement. After the mid-eighteenth century—which saw the popularization of culture and the rise of commercial printing—textbooks, guides, comical fiction, and woodblock prints allowed not a few commoners to acquaint themselves with the historical, lyrical, or artistic pedigree of Japan’s famous sites. By identifying themselves with famous literary and historical icons of the past, some among these erudite commoners saw an opportunity to rewrite their lives and re-create their identities in the pages of their travel diaries. The chapters in Part One, “Re-creating Spaces,” introduce the notion that the spaces of travel were malleable, accommodating reconceptualization across interpretive frames. Laura Nenzi shows that, far from being static backgrounds, these travelscapes proliferated in a myriad of loci where one person’s center was another’s periphery. In Part Two, “Re-creating Identities,” we see how, in the course of the Edo period, educated persons used travel to, or through, revered lyrical sites to assert and enhance their roles and identities. Finally, in Part Three, “Purchasing Re-creation,” Nenzi looks at the intersection between recreational travel and the rising commercial economy, which allowed visitors to appropriate landscapes through new means: monetary transactions, acquisition of tangible icons, or other forms of physical interaction.
Author |
: María Ramos-García |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2020-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498589390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498589391 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture by : María Ramos-García
Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and other fiction with strong romantic plots. Contributors’ approaches range from sociolinguistics to cultural studies, and the texts analyzed are set on four continents, with particular emphasis on Caribbean and Atlantic islands. What all the essays have in common is the exploration of representations of the Other, be it in an inter-racial or inter-cultural relationship. Chapters are divided into two parts; the first examines place, travel, history, and language in 20th-century texts; while the second explores tensions and transformations in the depiction of Otherness, mainly in texts published in the early 21st century. This book reveals that even at the end of the 20th century, these texts display neocolonialist attitudes towards the Other. While more recent texts show noticeable changes in attitudes, these changes can often fall short, as stereotypes and prejudices are often still present, just below the surface, in popular novels. The understudied field of popular romance, in which the Other is frequently present as a love interest, proves to be a fruitful area in which to explore the potential and the realities of the treatment of Otherness in popular culture. Scholars of literature, communication, romance, and rhetoric will find this book particularly useful.
Author |
: Glenn Hooper |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2017-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351911658 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351911651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Perspectives on Travel Writing by : Glenn Hooper
Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics. Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and memoir, fiction, and travel writing, and attempt to define travel writing as a genre. Utilising a variety of approaches, the essays display a shared concern with what travel writing does and how it does it. The effects of encounter and border-crossing on gender, 'race', and national identity are considered throughout. The collection begins with a review of some of the problems and issues facing the scholar of travel writing and moves on to a detailed discussion of the qualities of travel writing and its related forms. It then presents in chronological order a number of case studies, before closing with a critical discussion of approaches to the subject. An essay collection with broad historical and geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across the Humanities.
Author |
: Miguel A. Cabañas |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2015-06-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317585077 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317585070 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing by : Miguel A. Cabañas
This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and global citizenship; how they propose real-world political interventions in the places where the traveler goes; what tone they take toward political or socio-political violence; and how they intersect with political debates. Travel writing can be viewed as political in a purely instrumental sense, but, as this volume also demonstrates, travel writing’s reception and ideological interventions also transform personal and cultural realities. This book thus examines the ways in which politics’ material effects inform and intersect with personal experience in travel texts and engage with travel’s dialectic of mobility and stasis. In spite of globalization and efforts to eradicate the colonial vision in travel writing and in travel writing criticism, this vision persists in various and complex ways. While the travelogue can be a space of discursive and direct oppression, these essays suggest that the travelogue is also a narrative space in which the traveler employs the genre to assert authority over his or her experiences of mobility. This book will be an important contribution for interdisciplinary scholars with interests in travel writing studies, global and transnational studies, women’s studies, multicultural studies, the social sciences, and history.
Author |
: Jacek Mianowski |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2019-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030125905 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030125904 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memory, Identity and Cognition: Explorations in Culture and Communication by : Jacek Mianowski
The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially on such aspects as memory, identity and cognition. Firstly, it discusses the notion of memory and the idea of reimagining, as well as coming to terms with the past. Secondly, it studies the relationship between perception, cognition and language use. It then investigates a variety of practices of language users, language learners and translators, such as the use of borrowings from hip-hop and slang. The book is intended for researchers in the fields of linguistics and literary studies, lecturers teaching undergraduate and master’s students on courses in language and literature.
Author |
: Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech |
Publisher |
: V&R unipress |
Total Pages |
: 147 |
Release |
: 2023-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783737013895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3737013896 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Borders by : Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech
This trilingual volume focuses on acts of transgressive acting/writing in selected texts of European literatures whose authors differ in gender, nationality and time frame. Thus, the contributions collected here consider a double questioning: of difference and transgression of norms. Both concepts are set in relation to each other in order to be able to embed any transition in cultural-social-historical contexts. The analyses and interpretations of selected texts from German, French, Polish, Russian and ancient literature, presented in chronological order, show exemplary acts of transgression in different cultures and under changing time circumstances and document aesthetic attempts to revise the existing order and create a new one.
Author |
: Birgit Neumann |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 2012-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110227628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110227622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Travelling Concepts for the Study of Culture by : Birgit Neumann
Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts, this volume provides concise presentations of the main concepts and cutting-edge research fields in the study of culture (rather than the infinite multitude of possible themes). More specifically, the volume outlines different models for the study of culture, explores avenues for interdisciplinary exchange, assesses key concepts and traces their travels across various disciplinary, historical and national contexts. To trace the travelling of concepts means to map both their transfer from one discipline, approach or culture of research to another, and also to identify the transformations which emerge through these processes of transfer. The volume serves to show that working with (travelling) concepts provides a unique strategy for research and research design which can open up a wide range of promising perspectives for interdisciplinary exchange. It offers an exemplary overview of an interdisciplinary and international approach to the travelling concepts that organize, structure and shape the study of culture. In doing so, the volume serves to initiate a dialogue that exceeds disciplinary and national boundaries and introduces a self-reflexive dimension to the field, thus affording a recognition of how deeply disciplinary premises and nation-specific research traditions affect different approaches in the study of culture.
Author |
: Steven H. Clark |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015048929635 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Travel Writing and Empire by : Steven H. Clark
Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies and literary criticism. This is a comprehensive introduction to the genre, to its dynamics of power and representation, and the degree to which it has promoted ideologies of empire. It combines evaluations of the main models of analysis (new historicism, travelling theory and postcolonial studies) with specific studies showing how travel writing has been linked with a history of violent incursion from Columbus' reports from the New World onwards. The contributors discuss the travel writing of people such as Bruce Chatwin, Bill Bryson, Redmond O'Hanlon and Jonathan Raban. They resist the temptation to think in terms of a simple monolithic Eurocentrism and offer readings of texts produced before, during and after periods of imperial ascendency.
Author |
: Elizabeth C. Goldsmith |
Publisher |
: Ilex Series |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674295803 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674295803 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility and Masks by : Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
Travelers have always experimented with disguise while observing the disguises of others. Each of the chapters in Mobility and Masks illustrates strategies of concealment in travel, from Jesuits in Asia to women traveling incognito to a Chinese opera star in Russia to the racial implications of masking in the West Indies.