Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations

✍ Scribed by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: Reading Postcolonial Travel Writing......Page 12
1 Beyond Imperial Eyes......Page 28
2 Disturbing Naipaul's 'Universal Civilization': Islam, Travel Narratives and the Limits of Westernization......Page 47
3 Travelling Home: Global Travel and the Postcolonial in the Travel Writing of Pico Iyer......Page 65
4 Travel Writing and Postcoloniality: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound......Page 83
5 Decolonizing Travel: James/Jan Morris's Geographies......Page 96
6 'Between somewhere and elsewhere': Sugar, Slate and Postcolonial Travel Writing......Page 115
7 Where the Other Half Lives: Touring the Sites of Caribbean Spirit Possession in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place......Page 127
8 Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid's Travel Writing......Page 149
9 Post-Orientalism and the Past-Colonial in William Dalrymple's Travel Histories......Page 167
10 An Interview with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra......Page 184
Index......Page 196