Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America

By:

Claire Lindsay

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Research in Travel Writing

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This book considers how contemporary travelers from Latin America write their journeys at and about home. How do Latin American writers of the late twentieth-century negotiate the hybrid and volatile category of travel writing, which has been shaped in large part by myriad Euro-American travelers? How do they engage with the enduring myths about the region perpetuated by their imperial/ist predecessors? And, if not journeys of expansion or exploration, on precisely what kinds of ‘travel’ do their own journeys rest? Drawing on ideas from many disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural studies, this book considers contemporary journey narratives from Latin America through a series of case studies concerning four key sites of travel, each of which engenders particular forms of travel and travel narrative: Patagonia, the Andes, Mexico and the Mexico-US border. This book thus explores the complex practice and representation of journeys in the region by writers including Luis Sepúlveda, Mempo Giardinelli, Andrés Ruggeri, Ana García Bergua, Silvia Molina, María Luisa Puga, Rubén Martínez and Luis Alberto Urrea. In doing so, it explores questions relating to mobility, representation, and globalization that are of widespread concern across the world today.

Author Biography:

Claire Lindsay is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Literature at University College London.

Release date Australia

September 11th, 2014

Author

Claire Lindsay

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

176

Series

Routledge Research in Travel Writing

Dimensions

152x229x10

ISBN-13

9781138817579

Product ID

22429943

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