Travels in a World-Economy - Lew, Johnny
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Although the increasing mobility of contemporary societies and cultures has brought the subject of travel and travel writing to our attention in recent decades, our critical attentions have not usually been focused on the history and role of travel itself. How have the experiences and meanings of travel changed, especially in relation to radical social and cultural shifts? This study historicizes the nature of travel by describing its significance in an emerging world-economy, especially in contrast to world-empires. This study argues that in the modern world-economy of the long sixteenth…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Although the increasing mobility of contemporary
societies and cultures has brought the subject of
travel and travel writing to our attention in recent
decades, our critical attentions have not usually
been focused on the history and role of travel
itself. How have the experiences and meanings of
travel changed, especially in relation to radical
social and cultural shifts? This study historicizes
the nature of travel by describing its significance
in an emerging world-economy, especially in contrast
to world-empires. This study argues that in the
modern world-economy of the long sixteenth century,
three relatively distinct kinds of traveling
subjectivities emerged, subjectivities that
functionally correspond to the economic system s
interconnected relations among core, periphery and
semiperiphery. This study will be of interest to
economic, political, literary and cultural historians
exploring the importance of our increasing mobilities
in the modern era.
Autorenporträt
Johnny Lew, Ph.D., is a graduate of the American Studies program
at Boston University. He currently teaches early American
literature, literary theory and cultural studies at Queens
College, CUNY.