Travel worlds
journeys in contemporary cultural politics
by John Hutnyk
Everyone's Got a Traveller's Tale, but Travel Worlds tells them with a sting: African-American musicians head East for Kung-Fu kicks while paedophiles go for cheap sex pilgrimage; Western bible-bashers adopt missionary positions in India while heroic Saint George signs on as an Arab soldier in Britain; the scars of Partition mock the protocols of transit, while nomadic insurgents resist the Bangladeshi nation state with lyrical persuasion; Kula Shaker and Madonna trinketize the 'Orient' while dead tourists exchange values with travelling 'terrorists'; British Mirpuris and Black women travel back to the 'Old Country' and beyond in ways that are not quite as they seem; and ethnographers collide with tourists in the carousel of Goa's resorts.
Includes poetry and fiction alongside academic essays, this book refuses simplistic dichotomies of north/south and east/west and confronts head on existing conventions of writing about travel in post-colonial, literary and cultural studies.
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Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics
April 15, 1999, Zed Books
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Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics
April 15, 1999, Zed Books
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Travel worlds: journeys in contemporary cultural politics
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-181) and index.
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