1st Edition

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era Changing Times, Changing Spaces

By Ann Catherine Hoag Copyright 2025
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era engages feminist, temporal, and narrative theories to offer fresh examinations of interwar-era accounts by women about travel and movement and considers the use and limitations of time as a subversive force in their texts.  This book makes a significant contribution to the under-examined study of women’s travel writing between the wars and... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction: Space, Time, and Women’s Travel Writing between the Wars  Chapter 2: The Time of the Aviatrix: Time, Space, and Women's Negotiations of Representations of Flight  Chapter 3: Nomadic Selves: Time and the Body in Vita Sackville-West’s Passenger to Teheran and Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse  Chapter 4: Tyrannical Clocks: Gendered Time, Imperialism, and Narrative in Beryl Markham’s West with the Night and Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa  Chapter 5: Reclaiming the Past: Gender and Nostalgia in Kate O’Brien’s Farewell Spain and Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon  Conclusion: New Histories and New Futures for Women, Travel, and Writing

Biography

Ann Catherine Hoag is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She has published articles on women writers of the interwar era and contemporary migrant fiction.