Robert Clarke

Gebundenes Buch

Travel Writing from Black Australia

Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality

Beschreibung

Aboriginality has, in recent decades, been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society. For many travel writers, this clash between different regimes of valuing Aboriginality is one of the great challenges to travellng in Australia. Concentrating on a period marked by the rise of discourses on Aboriginality championing indigenous empowerment, self-determination, and reconciliation, the author analyzes how travel to Black Australia has become a means of discovering 'new' and potentially transformative styles of interracial engagement.

Autor

Robert Clarke teaches English studies in the School of Humanities, University of Tasmania, Australia. His research focuses on contemporary Australian fiction and travel writing. He is editor of Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Power and Representation in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures (2009) and The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing (forthcoming).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780415729208
• ISBN-10: 0415729203
• Artikelnr.: 42793855

Rezensionen

"This is an indispensable book to contemporary travel writing featuring Australia. Robert Clarke makes the case that Aboriginality is central to writing about travel and is indeed central to Australian identity past and future." - Simon Ryan, Australian Catholic University, Australia

"Travel writers have long used Aboriginal Australia as a test case in how to make sense of otherness: their responses may be predictable, but Robert Clarke's illuminating investigation of their work is full of surprises." - Richard White, University of Sydney, Australia

"This is an indispensable book to contemporary travel writing featuring Australia. Robert Clarke makes the case that Aboriginality is central to writing about travel and is indeed central to Australian identity past and future." - Simon Ryan, Australian Catholic University, Australia

"Travel writers have long used Aboriginal Australia as a test case in how to make sense of otherness: their responses may be predictable, but Robert Clarke's illuminating investigation of their work is full of surprises." - Richard White, University of Sydney, Australia