Travellers' Tales

by Jon Bird

• ISBN13: 9780203978986
• ISBN10: 0203978986
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-07-08
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

An investigation into the future of travelling in a world where boundaries are shifting and dissolving. Amongst the issues covered are politics and identity, history and narration and the representation of other cultures.

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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