Narratives of Cyprus : model travel writing and cultural encounters since Lawrence Durrell
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Narratives of Cyprus : model travel writing and cultural encounters since Lawrence Durrell
(International library of cultural studies, 29)
I.B. Tauris, 2015
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Bibliography: p. [204]-208
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Unease has marked relations between modern travel writers and the people of Cyprus. Visitors like Lawrence Durrell, Colin Thubron, Christopher Hitchens and Sebastian Junger have registered the effects of political strife on both the people of the island and those who visit from abroad. Their accounts demonstrate how geopolitical realities--such as colonization, insurgency, inter-communal warfare, and now decades of militarized 'peace'--shape the narrating self and its relations to others. Here, Jim Bowman assesses the effects of Cypriot history on writings about the island through an analysis of memoirs, travelogues, political journalism, guide books and ethnographies. Through this examination of popular texts, Bowman shows how a western and politicized image of Cyprus has been created, increasingly divorced from the realities experienced by the local population. Narratives of Cyprus is an important reassessment of Cyprus' place in British culture, and will be of interest to scholars and students of Anthropology, English Literature and Ethnographic Studies.
目次
CHAPTER ONE, INTRODUCTION-THE CULTURAL STAGE FOR STORIES OF CONFLICT: NARRATED TRAVEL WRITING IN MODERN CYPRUS
Contemporary travel writing in Cyprus represents the work of writers who have afforded audiences particular, culturally circumscribed perspectives into the island and its people. The island's history as a site of colonization, ethno-nationalism, Cold War politics and ambivalent peace informs the production of modern travel writing and the perspectives and practices of its narrators.
CHAPTER TWO-CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRAVEL WRITING AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTER
Contemporary scholarship dealing with travel and travel writing reveals how historical and political context shapes writers' encounters and their representations of others. Postcolonial critiques of travel writing typically posit its effects as hegemonic-serving the interests of empires and its apologists. Travel and travel writing, however, are better viewed as complex rhetorical acts inherently beset by concerns of ethics and power, never without transformative capacities.
CHAPTER THREE-FASHIONED FOR STORY'S SAKE: LAWRENCE DURRELL'S BITTER LEMONS AND THE TURKS OF CYPRUS
Durrell and his contemporaries narrate the Cyprus of the 1950s through the lens of a classic Orientalism: paternalistic, colonialist notions of order and industry inform his perspective. However, Durrell's troping of Cyprus and Cypriots demonstrates not only particularized political motives and culturally-informed inclinations. His narration displays multiple motives, including a determination to augment his own personal legend as a wily, roguish traveler, who can entertain audiences who are assumed to share his undying cultural affinity for Hellenism and suspicion of the imaginary difference of "the Turk."
CHAPTER FOUR-NARRATING FROM AN INTIMATE DISTANCE:
TURK TROPING ON COLIN THUBRON'S JOURNEY INTO CYPRUS
Thubron's near singular focus on people and landscape deliberately obscures significant elements of the personal-nation, age, sex, and religiosity, to name a few. As he arranges to secure the intimacy of others so that his story can be theirs, he systematically erects a distance between narrator and landscape that emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the contact and his privileged, insular vantage point. This posture operates as an ambiguous master trope that I dub "intimate distance." Its effects
CHAPTER FIVE-DAY-TRIPPING TO THE DARK SIDE:
THE ETHICS OF NARRATING AN ISLAND DIVIDED
Rhetorical analysis of the travel texts of partition-era Cyprus demonstrates how spatial orientation of the traveler determines the narrative arc and symbolic contours of the landscape. The stories in the period after 1974, which emerge primarily but not exclusively from writers based in the south of Cyprus, tend to construct one-dimensional portraits of Turkish and Greek Cypriots, according to port of entry.
CHAPTER SIX-TOWARD AN ETHICS OF ENCOUNTER FOR TRAVEL AND TRAVEL WRITING
Travelling, writing travel stories, and consuming travel texts involves people in complicated questions of motive: What does a traveler want from the experience, from the landscapes encountered, and from the people who make its stories? How is a traveler open to being affected by travel experiences? What type of story does the travel writer want to tell? A rhetorical response to the challenge of ethical narration in travel encounters in Cyprus and elsewhere promises a way forward-through the occasional paralysis or silence produced by the self-conscious criticism and cultural edits of contemporary global travelers.
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