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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Questions of travel
    sub title: postmodern discourses of displacement
  name:
    name part: Kaplan, Caren
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    place:
      place term: Durham, N. C
    publisher: Duke University Press
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 238 p.
  abstract: Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "traveling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism.\Addressing a wide range of writers, including Paul Fussell, Edward Said, James Clifford, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Soja, Doreen Massey, Chandra Mohanty, and Adrienne Rich, Kaplan demonstrates that symbols and metaphors of travel are used in ways that obscure key differences of power between nationalities, classes, races, and genders. Neither rejecting nor dismissing the powerful testimony of individual experiences of modern exile or displacement, Kaplan asks how mystified metaphors of travel might be avoided. With a focus on theory's colonial discourses, she reveals how these metaphors continue to operate in the seemingly liberatory critical zones of poststructuralism and feminist theory. The book concludes with a critique of the politics of location as a form of essentialist identity politics and calls for new feminist geographies of place and displacement.\An important and timely intervention into contemporary theoretical debates, Questions of Travel will be of interest to scholars in a wide variety of disciplines, including literary criticism, cultural studies, feminist theory, colonial and postcolonial studies, geography, anthropology, and sociology.
  table of contents: Questions of Travel: An Introduction. -- 1.- This Question of Moving": Modern Exile/Postmodern Tourism. -- 2.- Becoming Nomad: Poststructuralist Deterritorializations. -- 3.- Traveling Theorists: Cosmopolitan Diasporas. -- 4.- Postmodern Geographies: Feminist Politics of Location.
  note: Caren Kaplan.
  subject:
    topic: VIAJES EN LA LITERATURA
  subject:
    topic: POSTMODERNISMO (LITERATURA)
  subject:
    topic: LITERATURA MODERNA
    topic: HISTORIA Y CRITICA
  subject:
    topic: GEOGRAFIA
  classification: 809 K17
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Post-contemporary interventions
  record info:
    record content source: UAHC_CL
    record creation date: 091015
    record change date: 20170803121920.0
    record identifier: 020771