Travel and Imagination

Herausgeber: Lean, Garth; Waterton, Emma; Staiff, Russell

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Produktbeschreibung

The imagination has long been associated with travel and tourism; from the seventeenth century when the showman and his peepshow box would take the village crowd to places, cities and lands through the power of stories, to today when we rely on a different range of boxes to whisk us away on our imaginative travels: the television, the cinema and the computer. Even simply the notion of travel, it would seem, gives us license to daydream. The imagination thus becomes a key concept that blurs the boundaries between our everyday lives and the idea of travel. Yet, despite what appears to be a close and comfortable link, there is an absence of scholarly material looking at travel and the imagination. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, archaeologists, heritage researchers, literary scholars and creative writers, this edited collection explores the socio-cultural phenomenon of imagination and travel. The volume reflects upon imagination in the context of many forms of physical and non-physical travel, inviting scholars to explore this fascinating, yet complex, area of inquiry in all of its wonderful colour, slipperiness, mystery and intrigue. The book intends to provide a catalyst for thinking, discussion, research and writing, with the vision of generating a cannon of scholarship on travel and the imagination that is currently absent from the literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781472410252
• ISBN-10: 1472410254
• Artikelnr.: 41240626

Autorenporträt

Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton are all at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

chapterP1 Prelude Transit
Simone Lazaroo; Chapter 1 Reimagining Travel and Imagination
Garth Lean
Russell Staiff
Emma Waterton; Part 1 Mobile Identities; Chapter 2 Embodied Travel: In Search of the Caribbean Self in Tropical Places and Spaces
Jennifer D. Adams; Chapter 3 The Jealous Imagination: Travels in my Mind and out of my Body
Harriet Bell; Chapter 4 Travel-as-Homemaking
Gordon Waitt
Patricia Macquarie; Part 2 Tales of the Imagination; Chapter 5 The Imagination in the Travel Literature of Xavier de Maistre and its Philosophical Significance
Guy Bennett-Hunter; Chapter 6 The Prominence of the Railroad in the African American Imagination: Mobile Men
Gendered Mobility and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown
Michael Ra-shon Hall; Chapter 7 Tourist Imagination and Modernist Poetics: The Case of Cees Nooteboom
Odile Heynders
Tom van Nuenen; Chapter 8 Making Spain: The Spanish Imaginary in Travel Writing since the Second World War
Steve Watson; Part 3 Visual
Media
Representation; Chapter 9 'Where all the Lines of the Map Converge': Werner Herzog's Ekstatic Imagination and Performative Thresholds
Gabriella Calchi-Novati; Chapter 10 Toys on the Move: Vicarious Travel
Imagination and the Case of Travelling Toy Mascots
Shanna Robinson; Chapter 11 MT Promises: Science Fictional Travel Technologies and the Making and Unmaking of Corporeal Identity
Sean Williams; Part 4 Unsettling Imaginations; Chapter 12 'It's Still in Your Body': Identity
Place and Performance in Holocaust Testimonies
Steven Cooke
Donna-Lee Frieze; Chapter 13 Ready for Takeoff? Lacerated Fantasies of Caribbean Paradise in the Décollage Art of Andrea Chung
Marsha Pearce; Chapter 14 Venice
Desire
Decay and the Imagination: Travels into the 'Dark Side'
Russell Staiff; Part 5 A Final Word; Chapter 15 Travel and Imagination: An Invitation
Garth Lean
Emma Waterton;