Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations

With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.

Author: J. Edwards
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/10/2010
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230241190

About the Author
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE Independent Scholar TABISH KHAIR Associate Professor of English, Aarhus University, Denmark CLAIRE LINDSAY Senior Lecturer in Latin American Literature and Culture, University College London, UK MARÍA LOURDES LÓPEZ ROPERO Lecturer in English, University of Alicante, Spain PANKAJ MISHRA Independent Scholar ZORAN PE?I? Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark RICHARD PHILLIPS Reader in Geography, University of Liverpool, UK BIDHAN ROY Lecturer in Literature, California State University, Los Angeles, USA ANNE SCHRODER Independent Scholar PAUL SMETHURST Associate Professor in the School of English, University of Hong Kong