Travel writing and the transnational author / Sam Knowles

By:

Knowles, Sam

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.Description: ix, 244 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781137332455
113733245X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

820.9

Contents:

Introduction : travel writing and transnationalism -- part 1. Travelling out. Michael Ondaatje : the 'prodigal-foreigner', reconstruction, and transnational boundaries ; Vikram Seth : the performing wanderer and transnational disintegration -- part 2. Travelling on. Amitav Ghosh : uncertain translation and transnational confusion ; Salman Rushdie : political dualities and imperial transnationalisms -- Conclusion : transnational literature on the move.

Summary: Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie. By focusing on the under-considered influence of the authors' own travel writing on their later work, this book bridges two critical fields: travel writing and transnational literary studies. This results in a unique approach that interrogates both areas of study, while also complementing existing criticism on all four authors. Through an analysis of the links between their travel writing and later literature, Travel Writing and the Transnational Author re-considers what it means to travel, write, and exist as a contemporary transnational individual. Each chapter contains an in-depth analysis of selected texts - both early travelogues and later transnational literature - and the introduction gives a background on the politics and poetics of the authors alongside a well-informed overview of topics such as postcolonial and travel writing studies." -- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	820.9 KNO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000009509

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.

Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie. By focusing on the under-considered influence of the authors' own travel writing on their later work, this book bridges two critical fields: travel writing and transnational literary studies. This results in a unique approach that interrogates both areas of study, while also complementing existing criticism on all four authors. Through an analysis of the links between their travel writing and later literature, Travel Writing and the Transnational Author re-considers what it means to travel, write, and exist as a contemporary transnational individual.
Each chapter contains an in-depth analysis of selected texts - both early travelogues and later transnational literature - and the introduction gives a background on the politics and poetics of the authors alongside a well-informed overview of topics such as postcolonial and travel writing studies." -- Publisher's description.