Contemporary travel writing of Latin America / Claire Lindsay.
By: Lindsay, Claire
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BookSeries: Routledge research in travel writing: 3.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2010Description: x, 175 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415991216 (hbk.); 0415991218 (hbk.); 9780203858448 (ebk.); 0203858441 (ebk.).Subject(s): Travelers\' writings, Spanish American -- History and criticism | Spanish American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Travel in literature | Latin America -- In literature | Latin America -- Description and travelDDC classification: 868 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 863.64 2666 / | 863.64 Los detectives salvajes / | 863.7 La lección de anatomía / | 868 Contemporary travel writing of Latin America / | 868 Mexican travel writing / | 869.342 The Alchemist / | 869.342 Brida / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Bibliography: (pages 157-168) and index.
Introduction: Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America -- In (Postmodern) Patagonia -- Spectacular Andean Adventures -- Unhomely Mexico -- "Real" ethnographies.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Figures (p. vii)
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- 1 Introduction: Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America (p. 1)
- 2 In (Postmodern) Patagonia (p. 18)
- 3 Spectacular Andean Adventures (p. 47)
- 4 Unhomely Mexico (p. 66)
- 5 "Real" Ethnographies (p. 92)
- Afterword (p. 115)
- Notes (p. 121)
- Bibliography (p. 157)
- Index (p. 169)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Claire Lindsay is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Literature at University College London.