Description
Book Synopsis Travel and Representation is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical work that recognizes the limits of representation, things that lie outside of representation and the continuing power of representation. The emphasis is on the myriad ways travelers/scholars employ representation in their writing/analyses as they re-think the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and the future.
Trade Review “This is a well-written book that disentangles, through sound interdisciplinary scholarship, the multiple workings of travel representations, their effects on people, and their limits…[It] is definitely recommended reading for graduate students and scholars with an interest in how travel, including tourism, is represented and how both travel and its representations mutually influence each other.” • JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)
“This is a collection of beautifully written chapters coalescing around a set of mutually illuminating themes: the visual, the poetic, imagination, the post-representational, travel, and self/world making. Moving from film to the Internet, from photography to music, and from travel writing and poetry to television commercials, Travel and Representation puts this debate over representation into terms that are amenable to tourism studies and research.” • Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross
“This is an innovative collection of chapters that pushes the scope of research at the intersections between travel and representation in new directions by focusing on what representations ‘do’ in constructing the sensory and emotional experiences of travelers.” • Duncan Light, Bournemouth University
Table of Contents List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
: Travel and Representation: Past, Present, Future
Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton and Garth Lean
Chapter 1. Repeating Visions: Hitchcock’s Vertigo and San Francisco
Gemma Blackwood
Chapter 2. Curious Images from Northwest China: Ethics and Poetics in Carolyn Drake’s Travel Photography
Darren Byler
Chapter 3. Astronauts and Avatars: Travels between the Physical, the Virtual and the Imagined
Denise Doyle
Chapter 4. Finitude before Finitude: The Case of Rousseau-Bougainville-Diderot
Benoît Dillet
Chapter 5. Bernhard Smith and Imagining the Pacific: The Art/Poetics of ‘Discovery’ and the Art/Poetics of Writing about Early European Travellers in the South Pacific
Russell Staiff
Chaprter 6. Searching for the Spirit of Bluegrass
Cynthia J. Miller
Chapter 7. The Transient Gaze – Perambulist Somnambulist (Sensual, Sonic and Aural Photographic Narratives)
Peter Day
Chapter 8. Snapshot Photography and a Gendered Poetics of the Beach 1900–1920s
Nicolá Goc
Chapter 9. Mediating Mythic Origins and Lived Localities: Connecting and Distancing on Roots/Homeland Tours
Jillian L. Powers
Chapter 10. Road Trip through the Heartland: Television Advertisements and the Australian Domestic Traveller
Christopher Drew
Index
