Defining Travel: Diverse Visions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781934110539)

An anthology of diverse narratives that theorize on the reasons people travel, with essays by Gloria Anzald?, Jean Baudrillard, William Bevis, Homi Bhabha, Michel Butor, H駘鈩e Cixous, Erik Cohen, Michel de Certeau, Wayne Franklin, Paul Fussell, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Caren Kaplan, Eric Leed, Dean MacCannell, Doreen Massey, Carl Pedersen, Gustavo P駻ez-Firmat, Mary Louise Pratt, R. Radhakrishnan, Edward W. Said, and Thayer Scudder

Travel, movement, mobility--these are some of the essential activities in human life. Whether we travel to foreign lands or just across the city, we all journey, and from our journeying we shape ourselves, our history, and the stories we tell.

In essays written by some of the most respected contemporary scholars, this anthology brings together some of the best informed convictions about travel. Travel, so essential to human life, is a complex matter that encompasses a variety of travel experiences--family vacation, political exile, exploration of dist

Author: Susan L. Roberson
ISBN-10: 1934110531
ISBN-13: 9781934110539
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2002
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d