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Writes of passage : reading travel writing

Author: James S Duncan; Derek Gregory
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A discussion of the interplay between an homogenizing system of othering which travellers bring to a place and the geographical difference they discover on arrival. The tensions between the imaginary  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: James S Duncan; Derek Gregory
ISBN: 0415160138 9780415160131 0415160146 9780415160148
OCLC Number: 39235524
Description: vi, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Limited visions of Africa: geographies of savagery and civility in early eighteenth-century narratives / Roxann Wheeler --
Enlightenment travels: the making of epiphany in Tibet / Laurie Hovell McMillin --
Writing travel and mapping sexuality: Richard Burton's Sotadic Zone / Richard Phillips --
Flight from Lucknow: British women travelling and writing home, 1857-8 / Alison Blunt --
Scripting Egypt: Orientalism and the cultures of travel / Derek Gregory --
Dis-Orientation: on the shock of the familiar in a far-away place / James Duncan --
Exoticism of the familiar and the familiarity of the exotic: fin-de-siecle travellers to Greece / Robert Shannan Peckham --
Travelling through the closet / Michael Brown --
Writing over the map of Provence: the touristic therapy of A year in Provence / Joanne P. Sharp.
Responsibility: edited by James Duncan and Derek Gregory.
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