Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing

By Rune Graulund and Justin D. Edwards

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846318211
• ISBN13: 9781846318214
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"