{"product_id":"mobility-at-large-globalization-textuality-and-innovative-travel-writing-9781846318214","title":"Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMobility 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClear, interesting, provocative and well-argued ...I believe this is – surprisingly – the first book-length study of experimental travel writing. It deserves to be considered in the company of the most important critical works on contemporary travel writing. \u003cp\u003e\t\u003cb\u003eAlasdair Pettinger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Travel Revisited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Travelling with the Ondaatje Bros.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips: Global Travel, Then and Now\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Unhomely Travels; or, the Haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. The World, My City: Home Grounds and Global Cities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Travel Histories – From Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and Beyond Postscript: Still Mobile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360208027991,"sku":"9781846318214","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781846318214.jpg?v=1754126984","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mobility-at-large-globalization-textuality-and-innovative-travel-writing-9781846318214","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}