Travellers' Tales Narratives of Home and Displacement |
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| Editor:
| Bird, Jon
Curtis, Barry
Mash, Melinda
Putnam, Tim
Robertson, George
Tickner, Lisa |
| Series title: | FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-203-97898-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2005 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $54.95USD $190.00USD $190.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionMost 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'.