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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization book cover

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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization

By Stephen M. Levin Copyright 2008
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. Levin explores two questions: why does travel to an "undiscovered" place—one imagined outside the bounds of modernity—remain an enduring preoccupation in western... Read more

Preface: A Point of Entry

I Introduction: Adventure Travel, Leisure Practice and Social Critique

II The Contemporary Crusoe: Obsessionality and Adventure Travel

III Postmodern Pilgrimages: Conversion and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the Hysterical

IV The Self in Ruins: Mourning and Melancholia in Contemporary Travel Writing

V Conclusion: Negation as a Lived Critique of Global Culture

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Stephen M. Levin

"well-grounded, systematically organized, and intriguingly new conceptualizations of postmodern subjectivity and the adventure travel genre with wide interdisciplinary appeal." -- Modern Fiction Studies, Kristine A. Wilson, Purdue University

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