Mobile narratives : travel, migration, and transculturation
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Mobile narratives : travel, migration, and transculturation
(Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature, 18)
Routledge, 2014
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th-21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share a strong central interest in the ways in which the narratives of travel contribute to the imagining of ethnic encounters and how they have acted as sites of transformation and transculturation from the early nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to discussing textual representations of travel and migration, the volume also addresses the ways in which cultural texts themselves travel and are reconstructed in various cultural settings. The analyses are particularly attentive to the issues of globalization and migration, which provide a general frame for interpretation. What distinguishes the volume from existing books is its concern with travel and migration as ways of forging transcultural identities that are able to subvert existing categorizations and binary models of identity formation. In so doing, it pays particular attention to the performance of identity in various spaces of cultural encounter, ranging from North America to the East of Europe, putting particular emphasis on the representation of intercultural and ethnic encounters.
Table of Contents
Introduction Eleftheria Arapoglou, Monika Fodor, and Jopi Nyman Part I: Travels In/Out 1. Tourism, Sustainable Development, and Ethnic Identity: A Critique Richard Sharpley 2. Between Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny: Spanish American Travel Narratives of Jacksonian America Astrid Haas 3. 'The Politics of Location': American Travel Discourse in Early Nineteenth Century Greece Smaragda Yemenedzi-Malathouni 4. The Rhetoric of Unreality: Travel Writing And Ethnography in Edith Wharton's In Morocco Agnes Zsofia Kovacs 5. Narrative Trans-ethnicity in the Correspondence of John Xantus and Spencer Fullerton Baird Monika Fodor Part II: Travelling Texts 6.Traveling Texts and Tropes: Oedipus in the Township, The Illiad in Australia, Judges in Haiti: Towards a Transcultural -Local Aesthetics Miki Flockenmann 7. 'Can't Films Be Therapeutic?': Cinema, Psychoanalysis, And Zionism in Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir Nicholas Baer 8. Traveling across the Nation: Chinese Migration and the American Western Plays of the 1870s Zoe Detsi-Diamanti 9. Religious Syncretism, Iconography, and Trans-Ethnic Subjectivity Construction: The Role of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Maria Cristina Mena's and Cherrie Moraga's Literary Work Angelika Koehler Part III: Travellers Displaced 10. Hotel Hades Aritha Van Herk 11. Passports and Prayers: Relocating an Irish Religious Identity in Mary Anne Madden Sadlier's Emigrant Novels Yvonne O'Keeffe 12. The Impossibility of Transporting Identity: The Representation of Diasporic Irishness in Transatlantic Irish Fiction 1860-1900 Lindsay Janssen 13. Intimations of Displacement in Irish and Galician Poetry Manuela Palacios 14. The Female Ethnic Writer's 'Re-Turn' to the Ancestral Hearth: Greece and Italy Revisited Theodora D. Patrona 15."I Have Seen the Future and It is Mongrel:" Time Travel, Race, and Music in Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing Monika Mueller Part IV: Transcultural Spaces in East and West 16. 'The Unbearable Whiteness of Being': Negotiating Hybridity in Post-Soviet Jewish American Narrative Jesper Reddig 17. Dybek's Diaspora Tamas Dobozi 18. Stability and Mobility: Hyperterritoriality And Ethnic Intersections on Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina Andrew White 19. A Travelling Self with no Return Address: Anca Vlasopolos Ioana Luca
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