Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement

Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures. Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land. The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the other'.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415070155
• ISBN13: 9780415070157
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"