travel writing and postcolonial studies

Travel and colonialism. Travel and travel narratives shaped the way we understand the colonial and postcolonial world, and their importance to postcolonial studies has generated several book-length accounts in recent years. Colonialism encompasses the stories of many kinds of travellers with many motives, European merchant venturers, colonial ...

4 Spatial metaphors have been at the centre of postcolonial studies of travel writing, especially in terms of thinking about the encounter with power and its potential disruption. Mary Louise Pratt's oft-quoted definition of the "contact zone" continues to provide the fundamental framework for describing the encounter between cultures.

Part III, 'Peripheries' continues to shift the analysis of travel writing from the traditional focus on Eurocentric contexts. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field, appealing to students and teachers of travel writing and postcolonial studies.

Postcolonial Travel Writing Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund 1. Critical Borders In the field of postcolonial studies, travel writing has often been demonized. Critics have, at times, aligned travel narratives with other textual practices associated with colonial expansion - mapping, botany,

Travel writing, an important influence on tourism, is often criticized as hegemonic/colonial by postcolonial studies. This study notes that postcolonial studies invariably solely search for such ...

'Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations is an important study of central contemporary writers and their postcolonial travel text. With an impressive line-up of experts in the field, including scholars and travel writers, the collection embarks on the very timely project not only to offer close, theory-informed readings of significant travelogues, but also to revisit the use and ...

Of course, postcolonial travel writing is not simply a gment of the scholarly imagination. By the late 1980 s, postcolonial writing especially ction had become very popular with transnational readerships, and postcolonial travel writing was enjoying a privileged place for readers of travel writing. 6 Travel books have been popular with readers ...

Postcolonial Travel Writing Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund 1. Critical Borders In the field of postcolonial studies, travel writing has often been demonized. Critics have, at times, aligned travel narratives with other textual practices associated with colonial expansion - mapping, botany,

The introduction locates travel writing within the gamut of postcolonial studies and sets out the themes and topics that travel writing entails. It includes a brief and useful discussion of Amitav Ghosh's In An Antique Land, a text that critiques the idea of a travel narrative and "subverts the colonial travel narrative" (4).

The contributors almost all seek to recuperate the "postcolonial" approach. They recognize there have been "an increasing number of studies questioning the validity of 'the postcolonial' in a world recognized as global" (54). But the contributors, in diverse ways, regard globalization not as hollowing out or obviating postcoloniality.

DOI link for Travel Writing and Postcolonial Studies. Travel Writing and Postcolonial Studies. By Claire Lindsay. Book The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing. Click here to navigate to parent product. Edition 1st Edition. First Published 2015. Imprint Routledge. Pages 10. eBook ISBN 9780203366127. Share.

12 Claire Lindsay, "Travel Writing and Postcolonial Studies," in The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Carl Thompson (London: Routledge, 2016), 27. 7 notably Ali Behdad and David Spurr—avoid these pitfalls by recognizing the potentially essentializing conception of Orientalism and drawing on other postcolonial ...

Travel writing is an interdisciplinary genre that, in recent times, has become an important area of study. Closely linked to issues of imperialism, diaspora, multiculturalism, nationalism, identity, gender, globalization, colonialism and postcolonialism, it brings into play ideas of transculturation, the idea of the centre and the margin, border crossings, hybridity, location and displacement.

Postcolonialism and Travel Writing. G. Griffiths. Published 2012. History. Travel and colonialism Travel and travel narratives shaped the way we understand the colonial and postcolonial world, and their importance to postcolonial studies has generated several book-length accounts in recent years. Colonialism encompasses the stories of many ...

An ideal starting point for beginners, but also offering new perspectives for those familiar with the field, The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines: Key debates within the field, including postcolonial studies, gender, sexuality and visual culture. Historical and cultural contexts, tracing the evolution of travel writing across time ...

Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies. This book provides an introduction to the genre, particularly to its dynamics of power and representation, and the degree to which it has promoted ideologies of empire.The book combines detailed evaluations of major contemporary models of analysis - new historicism, travelling theory, and post-colonial studies - with a series of ...

Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies and literary criticism. This is a comprehensive introduction to the genre, to its dynamics of power and representation, and the degree to which it has promoted ideologies of empire. It combines evaluations of the main models of analysis (new historicism, travelling theory and ...

ABSTRACT. This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath. Starting from the premise that travel ...

discussions of travel writing, there is a two-fold problem: the whiteness of queer travel writing, and the heteronormativity of postcolonial travel writing. This article is an attempt to understand the potential for a new type of inquiry into travel writing that troubles the idea that the genre has become, and is becoming, more inclusive.

Queering postcolonial travel writing. Churnjeet Mahn. Published in Studies in Travel Writing 2 April 2020. Sociology, History. ABSTRACT Beginning with contemporary calls to decolonise travel writing, this article considers the intersection of race and sexuality in the genre. Why is the analysis of postcolonial travel writing so straight?

Journal overview. Founded in 1997 by Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing is an international, refereed journal dedicated to research on travel texts and to scholarly approaches to them. Unrestricted by period or region of study, the journal allows for specific contexts of travel writing to be established and for the application of a range of ...

264 pages ; 23 cm "The book combines detailed evaluations of major contemporary models of analysis - new historicism, travelling theory, and post-colonial studies - with a series of specific studies detailing the complicity of the genre with a history of violent incursion from Columbus's reports from the New World through to the nomadism of postmodern travelogue."

contemporary theoretical text giving much space to travel writing as such which in turn has proved to be one of the leading texts for postcolonial studies. It initiates the process of scrutinising and analysing the colonial representations in travel texts.Even feminist waves helped in evacuating many of the travel writings by women