Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415070157)

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. 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'.

Author: Jon Bird
ISBN-10: 0415070155
ISBN-13: 9780415070157
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1994
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.30w x 0.86d