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Book SynopsisExplores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "travelling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism.
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Questions of Travel is a multilayered inquiry into the ideological function of metaphors in discourses of displacement. Kaplan richly historicizes these metaphors in order to explicate the situated meanings that inhere in the myriad kinds of displacement that characterizes contemporary writing and lives. Her meditations on the rhetorics of displacement—including nomadism, exile, migrancy, and other practices of movement across space—take the reader on an exciting excursion into the fraught politics of travel discourse.”—Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz
Table of ContentsPreface ix
Questions of Travel: An Introduction 1
1. "This Question of Moving": Modernist Exile / Postmodern Tourism 27
2. Becoming Nomad: Poststructuralist Deterritorializations 65
3. Traveling Theorists: Cosmopolitan Diasporas 101
4. Postmodern Geographies: Feminist Politics of Location 143
Notes 189
Bibliography 211
Index 233
