Travel and Imagination

Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton are all at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

’This book closely engages in the experience and remembering of diverse spaces of our lives, virtual and very real and fleshy; familiar and otherwise. Much here is new, new angles, new examples, new kinds of stories. Its chapters are insightful of the way imagination works, flows and feels in body-mind, expressed in representation and otherwise; in human lives.’ David Crouch, University of Derby, UK ’This collection reminds us that there is no human travel without imagination but also that travelling usually fuels that imagination. In an evocative way and through a refreshing multidisciplinary lens the various contributors tease out the highly dynamic relationship between the two concepts. As such, the book launches the reader into an imaginative scholarly journey that has just begun.’ Noel B. Salazar, University of Leuven, Belgium 'Travel and Imagination lends itself to creativity and arguably a catalyst for imagination in people with travel as a focus. Many tourism student activities can also elevate the creativity in classes focusing on the travel industry and the imagination of the students.' European Journal of Tourism Research '... not only engaging and intellectually stimulating, but also presented in a creative and imaginative manner. ... It certainly engaged my own imagination as it led me on to the other chapters with a sense of discovery and excitement. ... Each chapter is well crafted and a delight to read in its own right.' Annals of Tourism Research

• chapterP1 Prelude Transit, Simone Lazaroo; Chapter 1 Reimagining Travel and Imagination, Garth Lean, Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton; Part 1 Mobile Identities; Chapter 2 Embodied Travel: In Search of the Caribbean Self in Tropical Places and Spaces, Jennifer D. Adams; Chapter 3 The Jealous Imagination: Travels in my Mind and out of my Body, Harriet Bell; Chapter 4 Travel-as-Homemaking, Gordon Waitt, Patricia Macquarie; Part 2 Tales of the Imagination; Chapter 5 The Imagination in the Travel Literature of Xavier de Maistre and its Philosophical Significance, Guy Bennett-Hunter; Chapter 6 The Prominence of the Railroad in the African American Imagination: Mobile Men, Gendered Mobility and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown, Michael Ra-shon Hall; Chapter 7 Tourist Imagination and Modernist Poetics: The Case of Cees Nooteboom, Odile Heynders, Tom van Nuenen; Chapter 8 Making Spain: The Spanish Imaginary in Travel Writing since the Second World War, Steve Watson; Part 3 Visual, Media, Representation; Chapter 9 ‘Where all the Lines of the Map Converge’: Werner Herzog’s Ekstatic Imagination and Performative Thresholds, Gabriella Calchi-Novati; Chapter 10 Toys on the Move: Vicarious Travel, Imagination and the Case of Travelling Toy Mascots, Shanna Robinson; Chapter 11 MT Promises: Science Fictional Travel Technologies and the Making and Unmaking of Corporeal Identity, Sean Williams; Part 4 Unsettling Imaginations; Chapter 12 ‘It’s Still in Your Body’: Identity, Place and Performance in Holocaust Testimonies, Steven Cooke, Donna-Lee Frieze; Chapter 13 Ready for Takeoff? Lacerated Fantasies of Caribbean Paradise in the Décollage Art of Andrea Chung, Marsha Pearce; Chapter 14 Venice, Desire, Decay and the Imagination: Travels into the ‘Dark Side’, Russell Staiff; Part 5 A Final Word; Chapter 15 Travel and Imagination: An Invitation, Garth Lean, Emma Waterton;