Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1856495620 ISBN 13 : 9781856495622

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

African-American musicians head East for Kung-Fu kicks while paedophiles go for cheap sex pilgrimage; Western bible-bashers adopt missionary positions in India while heroic Saint George signs on as an Arab soldier in Britain; the scars of Partition mock the protocols of transit, while nomadic insurgents resist the Bangladeshi nation state with lyrical persuasion; Kula Shaker and Madonna trinketize the ‘Orient’ while dead tourists exchange values with travelling ‘terrorists’; British Mirpuris and Black women travel back to the ‘Old Country’ and beyond in ways that are not quite as they seem; and ethnographers collide with tourists in the carousel of Goa’s resorts. Including poetry and fiction alongside academic essays, this book refuses simplistic dichotomies of north/south and east/west and confronts head on existing conventions of writing about travel in post-colonial, literary and cultural studies. In so doing, it sheds new light on: * the shortcomings of border theories and nation-state parameters * the politics of diasporic and transnational travels * the relations between tourism and terrorism * the limitations of ‘alternative’ tourism TRAVEL WORLDS plots the politics of diverse journeys; it is ‘something of a travel guide, something of a hold-all backpack, and something of another compass’.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856495620
• ISBN 13: 9781856495622
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Éditeur: Kaur Raminder, Hutnyk John
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible