Women, Travel Writing, and Truth

Women, Travel Writing, and Truth
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9781317690252
ISBN-13 : 1317690257
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Synopsis Women, Travel Writing, and Truth by : Clare Broome Saunders

The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise. Women, Travel, and Truth is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in date from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the eighteenth century to Jamaica Kincaid in the twenty-first, across such regions as India, Italy, Norway, Siberia, Austria, the Orient, the Caribbean, China and Mexico. Topics explored include blurred distinctions of fiction and non-fiction; travel writing and politics; subjectivity; displacement, and exile. Students and academics with interests in literary studies, history, geography, history of art, and modern languages will find this book an important reference.

Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing

Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0820449059
ISBN-13 : 9780820449050
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing by : Kristi Siegel

Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters - irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women's travel writing, these provocative essays not only affirm the impact of gender, but also cast women's journeys against coordinates such as race, class, culture, religion, economics, politics, and history. The book's scope is unique: Women travelers extend in time from Victorian memsahibs to contemporary «road girls», and topics range from Anna Leonowens's slanted portrayal of Siam - later popularized in the movie, The King and I, to current feminist «descripting» of the male-road-buddy genre. The extensive array of writers examined includes Nancy Prince, Frances Trollope, Cameron Tuttle, Lady Mary Montagu, Catherine Oddie, Kate Karko, Frances Calderón de la Barca, Rosamond Lawrence, Zilpha Elaw, Alexandra David-Néel, Amelia Edwards, Erica Lopez, Paule Marshall, Bharati Mukherjee, and Marilynne Robinson.

Handbook of British Travel Writing

Handbook of British Travel Writing
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 628
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ISBN-10 : 9783110498974
ISBN-13 : 3110498979
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Handbook of British Travel Writing by : Barbara Schaff

This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.

The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 12

The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 12
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Publisher : Best Women's Travel Writing
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 1609521897
ISBN-13 : 9781609521899
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 12 by : Lavinia Spalding

This 12th volume in the popular series presents the best travel writing by women for women that's been done in the past few years. Adventures range from a trip into a new neighborhood to expeditions to the far corners of the globe, always with the inner journey close at hand to give perspective and meaning. The voices are diverse, intimate, and engaging, as are the stories.

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9781040095829
ISBN-13 : 1040095828
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era by : Ann Catherine Hoag

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era engages feminist, temporal, and narrative theories to offer fresh examinations of interwar-era accounts by women about travel and movement and considers the use and limitations of time as a subversive force in their texts. This book makes a significant contribution to the under-examined study of women’s travel writing between the wars and synthesises and applies a variety of feminist, narrative, and postcolonial theories to excavate new understandings of the intersection between women, travel, and time in writing. The book studies the emergence of the aviatrix after the Great War and moves through to the representations of war in women’s travel on the brink of World War II. Each chapter offers a unique theoretical framework and examines how experiences of time impact perceptions of women’s bodies and identities, their engagement with history and discourse, and the problematic influence on colonialism. Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era is essential reading to any student or researcher in the field of women’s travel writing, as well as scholars of gender studies, war and interwar history, and cultural heritage.

Gender, Companionship, and Travel

Gender, Companionship, and Travel
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780429017902
ISBN-13 : 0429017901
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender, Companionship, and Travel by : Floris Meens

Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about the influence of gender both on these realities, as well as on the discourse in which these are being narrated. This book aims to establish an agenda for the study of companionship in travel writing by offering a collection of new essays which study texts that belong to the broad category of pre-modern and modern travel literature. Chapters explore the differences and similarities in the ways that women and men in the past chose to describe their experiences with, and/or their ideas about companionship, and specifically reveals the influence of gender norms, conventions, restrictions, and stereotypes. This is the first book which looks at the long-term, interdisciplinary, and genuinely international history of gendered discourses on companionship in travel writing. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of disciplines, including cultural and social history, as well as cultural, literary, gender, travel, and tourism studies.

The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9

The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9
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Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781609520861
ISBN-13 : 1609520866
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9 by : Lavinia Spalding

Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized national leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the ninth in that series—The Best Women’s Travel Writing—presenting stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads connecting these stories are a female perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes are as eclectic as in all of our books, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.

Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing

Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9781498579766
ISBN-13 : 1498579760
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing by : Michelle Medeiros

Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing: Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History analyzes the interrelations among authority, gender and the scientific discipline of natural history in the works of transatlantic women travelers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Michelle Medeiros sheds new light on our understanding of the literary perspectives of the discourse of natural history and how these viewpoints had a surprising impact in areas that went beyond scientific fields. This book advances the study of travel writing and gender in new directions by bringing together Latin American, European, and American women travelers who actively engaged in natural history discussions in their writings. By demonstrating how these women were only able to participate in intellectual enterprises by embarking on transatlantic voyages, this book discloses how the work produced by these travelers challenged and reshaped dominant discourses, bringing a new point of view to nineteenth and twentieth-centuries studies in Latin American history, literature, cultural studies, and history of science. Moreover, this book analyzes to what extent the approaches employed by female travel writers who wanted to engage in the production of knowledge has evolved in that time period, and to what degree such changes could be considered positive and more productive.

Three Traveling Women Writers

Three Traveling Women Writers
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781351587730
ISBN-13 : 1351587730
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Three Traveling Women Writers by : Natália Fontes de Oliveira

This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women’s travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit women’s space in print culture. For the first time, through a comparative lens, a Latin American woman’s travel narrative is analyzed concomitantly with the narratives of a North American and a European writer. Contrary to the common assumption that Latin American women were powerless victims of imperialism, elite women had access to the predominant philosophies of their time, traveled around the globe, and wrote about their experiences. This book examines how an Argentinian writer, together with an English and an American writer, manipulate their bourgeois identity to inhabit the male dominated sphere of print culture. By travelling and publishing travel narratives, the three traveling women writers search for empowerment to establish their authority as writers and shapers of knowledge in literature. Utilizing several concepts and criticisms, including Aristotle’s rhetoric, Foucault’s theories, travel writing criticism, postcolonial discourse, and feminist literary criticism; this volume attempts to challenge old-fashioned architypes and confinements of gender for traveling women writers in the nineteenth century.

Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China

Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9781000727487
ISBN-13 : 1000727483
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China by : Jeffrey Mather

From the travel writing of the eccentric plant collector and Reginald Farrer, to Emily Hahn’s insider depictions of bohemian life in semi-colonial Shanghai, to Ezra Pound’s mediated ‘journeys’ to Southwest China via the explorer Joseph Rock – Anglo-American representations of China during the first half of the twentieth century were often unconventional in terms of style, form, and content. By examining a range of texts that were written in the flux of travel – including poems, novels, autobiographies – this study argues that the tumultuous social and political context of China’s Republican Period (1912-49) was a key setting for conceptualizing cultural modernity in global and transnational terms. In contrast with accounts that examine China’s influence on Western modernism through language, translation, and discourse, the book recovers a materialist engagement with landscapes, objects, and things as transcribed through travel, ethnographic encounter, and embodied experience. The book is organized by three themes which suggest formal strategies through which notions cultural modernity were explored or contested: borderlands, cosmopolitan performances, and mobile poetics. As it draws from archival sources in order to develop these themes, this study offers a place-based historical perspective on China’s changing status in Western literary cultures.