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.
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