Questions of travel : postmodern discourses of displacement /

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, Caren
Format: Libro
Language:English
Published: Durham, N. C Duke University Press 1996
Series:Post-contemporary interventions
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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.