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Book SynopsisArgues that the key texts of modernity and postmodernity may be approached through figures and narratives of paralysis: motion is no more defining of modern travel than fixations, resistance, and impasse; concepts and figures of travel, he posits, must be rethought in this more static light.
Trade Review"Culbert convincingly shows how in their travel accounts, diverse colonial and postcolonial authors such as Eugene Fromentin, Jean Paulhan, Michel Leiris, Roland Barthes, and Rachid Boudjedra are always caught in a double bind of mobility and stasis."—C.B. Kerr,
ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
1. The Muse of Paralysis 000
2. Horizon of Conquest: Eugène Fromentin's Algerian Narratives 000
3. Slow Progress: Jean Paulhan and Madagascar 000
4. Frustration: Michel Leiris 000
5. Atopia: Roland Barthes 000
6. The Wake of Ulysses 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000
