The Long Journey: Exploring Travel and Travel Writing

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

The Long Journey

Exploring Travel and Travel Writing

Edited by: Maria Pia Di Bella and Brian Yothers

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789209372

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About this book

Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, literary scholars, social historians, and other scholars to illuminate travel writing in all its forms. With studies ranging from colonial adventurism to the legacies of the Holocaust, The Long Journey offers a unique dual focus on experience and genre as it applies to three key realms: memory and trauma, confrontations with the Other, and the cultivation of cultural perspective.

Author / Editor information

Maria Pia Di Bella is a senior research scholar at IRIS-EHESS, Paris and Research Affiliate at the Harvard Divinity School. She is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing.

Brian Yothers is a Professor of English and the Chair of the Department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is co-editor of the journal Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing.

Maria Pia Di Bella is a senior research scholar at IRIS-EHESS, Paris and Research Affiliate at the Harvard Divinity School. She is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing.

Reviews

“Because the essays represent a variety of disciplines—among them literature, history, and anthropology—the book offers a refreshing view of the field as a whole…Highlights include Wendy Bracewell’s insightful take on masculinity and the Balkans (via work ranging from Sara Mills's to Moma Dimić's) and Keith Newlin’s unvarnished examination of Jack and Charmian London’s insular journey to Melanesia. This engaging and useful text should invigorate both new and seasoned scholars of the genre….Recommended” • Choice

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Maria Pia Di Bella and Brian Yothers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I MEMORY AND TRAUMA
Chapter 1 WALKING MEMORY Berlin’s “Holocaust Trail” Maria Pia Di Bella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2 TOURING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA Cheryl Finley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Chapter 3 A WARTIME CINEMATIC RECREATION OF THE JOURNEY LINKING CHINA AND JAPAN IN THE MODERN ERA Joshua A. Fogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
PART II VISUALIZING OTHERNESS
Chapter 4 SEEING A DIFFERENCE Spectacles of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Illustrated Travel Books Julia Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 5 A BEGINNING, TWO ENDS, AND A THICKENED MIDDLE Journeys in Afghanistan from Byron to Hosseini Graham Huggan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 6 NEW MEN, OLD EUROPE Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing Wendy Bracewell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter 7 AMONG CANNIBALS AND HEADHUNTERS Jack London in Melanesia Keith Newlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
PART III CREATING AND RECOVERING PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 8 FORGETTING LONDON Paris, Cultural Cartography, and Late Victorian Decadence Alex Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 9 IN THE EYES OF SOME BRITONS Aleppo, an Enlightenment City Mohammad Sakhnini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Chapter 10 An Ordinary Place: Aboriginality and ‘Ordinary’ Australia in Travel Writing of the 1990s Robert Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Chapter 11 “THE RIGHT SORT OF WOMAN” British Women Travel Writers and Sports Precious McKenzie Stearns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
CONCLUSION Interminable Journeys Pramod K. Nayar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206