Debbie Lisle

The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780521867801
• ISBN-10: 0521867800
• Artikelnr.: 22742554

Autorenporträt

Debbie Lisle is Lecturer in Politics and Director of Cultural and Media Studies in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at the Queens University of Belfast. She received the BISA Best Thesis Prize for her PhD in International Relations at Keele University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the global imaginary of contemporary travel writing
2. Between fact and fiction: the generic limits of travel writing
3. The cosmopolitan gaze: re-articulations of modern subjectivity
4. Civilizing territory: geographies of safety and danger
5. Looking back: utopia, nostalgia and the myth of historical progress
6. Conclusion: engaging the political: contemporary travel writing and the ethics of difference.