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Book SynopsisWhy do we travel? What are we doing – and what do we imagine we are doing – when we leave the house, get on a plane and thereby step into globalism? The Importance of Elsewhere is a collection of essays, rooted in Randy Malamud’s own lifetime of travel, that addresses those questions and more. Setting today’s tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty that are deeply woven into the imperial enterprise – and that remain key drivers of our interest in and enjoyment of travel today. Marrying concrete case studies and lively personal anecdotes, The Importance of Elsewhere will be of interest to any global traveler who has ever stopped to wonder what it is that draws her to faraway places.
Trade Review'Randy Malamud, a distinguished American professor of English . . . likes to get on planes. He is not a naive tourist but a “travelling humanist”. He might carry a lot of literary baggage, but he travels light. His knowledge informs his tourism. It doesn’t squash it... He recognises the dangers of travel. Planes can carry nasty bacteria to anywhere with an international airport. But Malamud wants to be a carrier of ease rather than disease, transmitting to his readers the way travel can provoke joy, widen our aesthetics and offer a buffet of experiences.'
-- Jeremy MacClancy * Times Higher Education *
Table of ContentsHome and Away
Randy Malamud Should I Stay or Should I go?
Randy Malamud Travel or Tourism
Randy Malamud Fear of Flying
Randy Malamud Travel Reading: Reading Travel
Randy Malamud 'The Importance of Elsewhere'
Randy Malamud LEEDS: Literary Tourism
Randy Malamud ŁÓDŹ: Monty Python's Academic Circus
Randy Malamud COPENHAGEN: Projecting a Triumphant Queer Moment
Randy Malamud LONDON: Sex 2.0
Randy Malamud COTTBUS: Weltspiegel
Randy Malamud BAGHDAD: Reconstructing Iraqi Academe
Randy Malamud TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Penguins at the End of the World
Randy Malamud ZAGREB: The Subversive Summit
Randy Malamud SZOLNOK: Science and Film
Randy Malamud BERLIN: Gestapo Headquarters
Randy Malamud DUBAI: A Cinematic Door to the Middle East
Randy Malamud WARSAW: The Bores of Academe
Randy Malamud COURMAYEUR: Noir
Randy Malamud SVALBARD: Introduction to Arctic Studies
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