Travel writing and re-enactment : echotourism /
Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such reenactments as quests for aura in which travelers seek to capture a sense of distinction a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2024].
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| Series: | Routledge research in travel writing.
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| Summary: | Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such reenactments as quests for aura in which travelers seek to capture a sense of distinction and historical profundity. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment frames the reenactment of past journeys in a number of contexts, including Benjamin's writing on mechanical reproduction, Judith Butler's work on gender performance and postmodern parody. Echotourist journeys are surprisingly contingent and precarious, and force travelers to navigate historical changes involving empire, gender and travel practice in densely performative ways. Through close readings of contemporary travel narratives this monograph considers the legacies of Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Graham Greene, Mary Kingsley and Ernest Shackleton, among others. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment examines the way literary reenactment expresses, and sometimes confounds, the desire to find meaning through travel in the contemporary world. |
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| Physical Description: | 131 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-127) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032437071 1032437073 9781032437088 1032437081 |