Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138547980 ISBN 13: 9781138547988

Verlag: Routledge, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th-21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share a strong central interest in the ways in which the narratives of travel contribute to the imagining of ethnic encounters and how they have acted as sites of transformation and transculturation from the early nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to discussing textual representations of travel and migration, the volume also addresses the ways in which cultural texts themselves travel and are reconstructed in various cultural settings. The analyses are particularly attentive to the issues of globalization and migration, which provide a general frame for interpretation. What distinguishes the volume from existing books is its concern with travel and migration as ways of forging transcultural identities that are able to subvert existing categorizations and binary models of identity formation. In so doing, it pays particular attention to the performance of identity in various spaces of cultural encounter, ranging from North America to the East of Europe, putting particular emphasis on the representation of intercultural and ethnic encounters.

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Eleftheria Arapoglou is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California at Davis, US.

Mónika Fodor is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Pécs, Hungary.

Jopi Nyman is Professor of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138547980
• ISBN 13: 9781138547988
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296
• Herausgeber: Arapoglou Eleftheria, Fodor Mónika, Nyman Jopi
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