Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement - Couverture souple

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Kaplan, Caren

 
9780822318217: Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
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ISBN 10 : 0822318210 ISBN 13 : 9780822318217
Editeur : Duke University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "traveling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism.
Addressing a wide range of writers, including Paul Fussell, Edward Said, James Clifford, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Soja, Doreen Massey, Chandra Mohanty, and Adrienne Rich, Kaplan demonstrates that symbols and metaphors of travel are used in ways that obscure key differences of power between nationalities, classes, races, and genders. Neither rejecting nor dismissing the powerful testimony of individual experiences of modern exile or displacement, Kaplan asks how mystified metaphors of travel might be avoided. With a focus on theory's colonial discourses, she reveals how these metaphors continue to operate in the seemingly liberatory critical zones of poststructuralism and feminist theory. The book concludes with a critique of the politics of location as a form of essentialist identity politics and calls for new feminist geographies of place and displacement.

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À propos de l?auteur

Caren Kaplan is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is coeditor (with Inderpal Grewal) of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices and Between Woman and Nation (with Norma Alarcón and Minoo Moallem).

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822318210
ISBN 13 
9780822318217
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780822318286: Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement

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ISBN 10 :  0822318288 ISBN 13 :  9780822318286
Editeur : Duke University Press, 1996
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