{"product_id":"questions-of-travel-9780822318217","title":"Questions of Travel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eQuestions of Travel\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Questions of Travel: An Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"This Question of Moving\": Modernist Exile \/ Postmodern Tourism 27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Becoming Nomad: Poststructuralist Deterritorializations 65\u003cbr\u003e 3. Traveling Theorists: Cosmopolitan Diasporas 101\u003cbr\u003e 4. Postmodern Geographies: Feminist Politics of Location 143\u003cbr\u003e Notes 189\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 211\u003cbr\u003e Index 233","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406018158935,"sku":"9780822318217","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822318217.jpg?v=1730494259","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/questions-of-travel-9780822318217","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}