The Importance of Elsewhere
The Globalist Humanist Tourist
Why do we travel? What are we doing - and what do we imagine we are doing - when we leave the house, get on a plane and thereby step into globalism? The Importance of Elsewhere is a collection of essays, rooted in Randy Malamud's own lifetime of travel, that addresses those questions and more. Setting today's tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty that are deeply woven into the imperial enterprise - and that remain key drivers of our interest in and enjoyment of travel today. Marrying concrete case studies…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78320-875-3
- EAN: 9781783208753
- Produktnummer: 26896323
- Verlag: Intellect Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 234 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'214 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Randy Malamud is the Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University and the author of eight books, including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls. He regularly writes for Salon and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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