ISBN:
9780203978986
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (268 pages)
Series Statement:
FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis
Parallel Title:
Print version Bird, Jon Travellers' Tales : Narratives of Home and Displacement
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Intercultural communication
Abstract:
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, and tourism. 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'
Abstract:
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 -- ANTICIPATION, FUTURE WITHOUT ME, AND BECOMING-WOMAN -- BEHIND 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 -- Chapter 6 For a politics of nomadic identity -- NOTES -- 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
Abstract:
WAYS OF DISPLAY, WAYS OF SEEING -- CACOPHONY 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 -- Chapter 15 Why travel? Tropics, en-tropics and apo-tropaics -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Backwords -- Chapter 16 Leaky habitats and broken grammar -- NOTES -- Index
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