Defining Travel: Diverse Visions

An anthology of diverse narratives that theorize on the reasons people travel, with essays by Gloria Anzald?a, Jean Baudrillard, William Bevis, Homi Bhabha, Michel Butor, H?l?ne Cixous, Erik Cohen, Michel de Certeau, Wayne Franklin, Paul Fussell, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Caren Kaplan, Eric Leed, Dean MacCannell, Doreen Massey, Carl Pedersen, Gustavo P?rez-Firmat, Mary Louise Pratt, R. Radhakrishnan, Edward W. Said, and Thayer Scudder

Travel, movement, mobility--these are some of the essential activities in human life. Whether we travel to foreign lands or just across the city, we all journey, and from our journeying we shape ourselves, our history, and the stories we tell.

In essays written by some of the most respected contemporary scholars, this anthology brings together some of the best informed convictions about travel. Travel, so essential to human life, is a complex matter that encompasses a variety of travel experiences--family vacation, political exile, exploration of dist

Author: Susan L. Roberson

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

Publication Date: Feb 14, 2002

Number of Pages: 324 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1934110531

ISBN-13: 9781934110539