Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations

✍ Scribed by Justin D Edwards, Rune Graulund (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 202
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Beyond Imperial Eyes....Pages 17-35
Disturbing Naipaul’s ‘Universal Civilization’....Pages 36-53
Travelling Home....Pages 54-71
Travel Writing and Postcoloniality....Pages 72-84
Decolonizing Travel....Pages 85-103
‘Between somewhere and elsewhere’....Pages 104-115
Where the Other Half Lives....Pages 116-137
Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid’s Travel Writing....Pages 138-155
Post-Orientalism and the Past-Colonial in William Dalrymple’s Travel Histories....Pages 156-172
An Interview with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra....Pages 173-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-192

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Postcolonial/World Literature; Fiction; North American Literature; African Literature

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