Importance of Elsewhere

The Globalist Humanist Tourist

AvRandy Malamud

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Why do we travel? What are we doing – and what do we imagine we are doing – when we leave the house, get on a plane and thereby step into globalism? The Importance of Elsewhere is a collection of essays, rooted in Randy Malamud’s own lifetime of travel, that addresses those questions and more. Setting today’s tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty that are deeply woven into the imperial enterprise – and that remain key drivers of our interest in and enjoyment of travel today. Marrying concrete case studies and lively personal anecdotes, The Importance of Elsewhere will be of interest to any global traveler who has ever stopped to wonder what it is that draws her to faraway places.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-15
Mått:178 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Intellect
ISBN:9781783208746

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Reseböcker inom Reseguider

Mer om författaren

Randy Malamud is the Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University and the author of eight books, including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls. He regularly writes for Salon and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Recensioner i media

'Randy Malamud, a distinguished American professor of English . . . likes to get on planes. He is not a naive tourist but a “travelling humanist”. He might carry a lot of literary baggage, but he travels light. His knowledge informs his tourism. It doesn’t squash it... He recognises the dangers of travel. Planes can carry nasty bacteria to anywhere with an international airport. But Malamud wants to be a carrier of ease rather than disease, transmitting to his readers the way travel can provoke joy, widen our aesthetics and offer a buffet of experiences.'

Innehållsförteckning

Home and AwayRandy Malamud Should I Stay or Should I go?Randy Malamud Travel or Tourism Randy Malamud Fear of FlyingRandy Malamud Travel Reading: Reading TravelRandy Malamud 'The Importance of Elsewhere'Randy Malamud LEEDS: Literary TourismRandy Malamud ŁÓDŹ: Monty Python's Academic CircusRandy Malamud COPENHAGEN: Projecting a Triumphant Queer MomentRandy Malamud LONDON: Sex 2.0Randy Malamud COTTBUS: WeltspiegelRandy Malamud BAGHDAD: Reconstructing Iraqi AcademeRandy Malamud TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Penguins at the End of the WorldRandy Malamud ZAGREB: The Subversive SummitRandy Malamud SZOLNOK: Science and FilmRandy Malamud BERLIN: Gestapo HeadquartersRandy Malamud DUBAI: A Cinematic Door to the Middle EastRandy Malamud WARSAW: The Bores of AcademeRandy Malamud COURMAYEUR: NoirRandy Malamud SVALBARD: Introduction to Arctic StudiesRandy Malamud