ISBN:
9780415070157
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (268 p)
Series Statement:
FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis
Parallel Title:
Print version Travellers' Tales : Narratives of Home and Displacement
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An investigation into the future of travelling in a world where boundaries are shifting and dissolving. Amongst the issues covered are politics and identity, history and narration and the representation of other cultures
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; As the world turns: introduction; NOTES; Forwards; Chapter 1 Other than myself/my other self; TRAVELLING TALES; A STRANGER IN A STRANGE COUNTRY; WANDERERS ACROSS LANGUAGE; THEIR COUNTRY IS MY COUNTRY; THE BLUE FROG; I-THE MIS-SEER; NOTES; Part I Neighbours; Chapter 2 Discovering new worlds: politics of travel and metaphors of space; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE; Chapter 3 The becoming threshold of matrixial borderlines; EXODUS; THE BECOMING THRESHOLD OF BORDERLINES
Description / Table of Contents:
ANTICIPATION, FUTURE WITHOUT ME, AND BECOMING-WOMANBEHIND THE OTHER OF THE PRESENT; NOTES; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 Territories of desire: reconsiderations of an African childhood; THE VOYAGE OUT, AND BACK; MIGRATION AND RETURN: A TIME FOR TELLING TALES; NOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE: AN AFRICAN CHILDHOOD RECONSIDERED; NOTES; Part II Home and away; Chapter 5 Home and identity; THE MEANINGS OF HOME AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE; THE JOURNEY OF THE MIGRANT; EXILES, STRANGERS, FOREIGNERS; THE RIGHTS OF A FOREIGNER; STRANGERS AND STIGMA; MARKING THE BOUNDARY; NOTES
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 For a politics of nomadic identityNOTES; Chapter 7 Refugees and homecomings: Bessie Head and the end of exile; NOTES; Part III Crossroads; Chapter 8 Soft-soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising; EMPIRE OF THE HOME; COMMODITY RACISM AND THE SOAP CULT; EMPIRE OF THE HOME: RACIALIZING DOMESTICITY; DOMESTICATING EMPIRE; FETISHISM IN THE CONTEST ZONE; NOTES; Chapter 9 Travelling to collect: the booty of John Bargrave and Charles Waterton; NOTES; Chapter 10 Looking at objects: memory, knowledge in nineteenth-century ethnographic displays; VISION AND KNOWLEDGE
Description / Table of Contents:
WAYS OF DISPLAY, WAYS OF SEEINGCACOPHONY IN EXHIBITS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 11 The distance between two points: global culture and the liberal dilemma; NOTES; Chapter 12 The cosmopolitan ideal in the arts; NOTES; Part IV Take the high road; Chapter 13 'Getting there': travel, time and narrative; TRAVEL TIME; TIME TRAVEL; TOURISM AND THE LIBIDINAL ECONOMY OF 'SELF'; EATING AND INCORPORATION; SHOPPING AND ACQUISITION; SIGHTSEEING AND THE PRIMAL SCENE; NARRATIVE AS JOURNEY; NOTES; Chapter 14 Travel for men: from Claude Lévi-Strauss to the Sailor Hans; NOTES; REFERENCES
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 15 Why travel? Tropics, en-tropics and apo-tropaicsNOTES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Backwords; Chapter 16 Leaky habitats and broken grammar; NOTES; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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