Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement

by Bird; Jon

• ISBN13: 9780415070157
• ISBN10: 0415070155
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-10-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From time to time, most of us either adopt a "tourist" identity or are framed within another's experience of travel and voyeurism.Travellers' Talesinvestigates the future of travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourse of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting, appropriating or representing other cultures; and tourism. Travellers' Talessways between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in strange and unfamiliar lands. The contributors 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 encoutering the "Other."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xiv
As the World Turns: Introduction	p. 1
Forwards	p. 7
Other Than Myself/My Other Self	p. 9
Notes	p. 25
Neighbours	p. 27
Discovering New Worlds: Politics of Travel and Metaphors of Space	p. 29
The Becoming Threshold of Matrixial Borderlines	p. 38
Notes	p. 61
Territories of Desire: Reconsiderations of an African Childhood	p. 63
Home and Away	p. 91
Home and Identity	p. 93
For a Politics of Nomadic Identity	p. 105
Refugees and Homecomings: Bessie Head and the End of Exile	p. 114
Notes	p. 127
Crossroads	p. 129
Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising	p. 131
Notes	p. 152
Travelling to Collect: the Booty of John Bargrave and Charles Waterton	p. 155
Looking at Objects: Memory, Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Displays	p. 164
The Distance Between Two Points: Global Culture and the Liberal Dilemma	p. 177
Notes	p. 186
The Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Arts	p. 187
Take the High Road	p. 197
'Getting There': Travel, Time and Narrative	p. 199
Travel for Men: from Claude Lévi-Strauss to the Sailor Hans	p. 216
References	p. 224
Why Travel? Tropics, En-Tropics and Apo-Tropaics	p. 225
Notes	p. 241
Backwords	p. 243
Leaky Habitats and Broken Grammar	p. 245
Index	p. 250
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