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"Mobility at Large" explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing wherein the authors experiment with form, content and the politics of representation. In this, innovative travel texts by a range of writers - from Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips to Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller - transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of experimental textual strategies to work through questions of movement and the politics of personal identity in relation to the complex interlocutions of space, place and subjectivity. As a result, "Mobility at Large" challenges those critics who dismiss the genre as inherently conservative and inextricably bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition. The book also documents a long and rich tradition of travel writing that existed well beyond the influence of Europe.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Mobility at Large
• Author: Justin D Edwards
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 215
• EAN: 9781846318214
• ISBN: 1846318211
• ID: 01234905
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Weight: 492 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 164 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2012

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