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Cultural Encounters - European Travel Writing in the 1930s (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Cultural Encounters - European Travel Writing in the 1930s (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Series: Remapping Cultural History
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These timely reconsiderations of European Travel writing from the
1930s reassert the oppositional primacy of subjective translations
and disavow hermetic notions that travel should or even can be
divorced from socio-political or cultural contexts. * Journeys
Cultural Encounters offers a rich, varied and yet impressively
coherent collection of essays on the meanings and practices of
travel writing in 1930s Europe. Carefully building on theoretical
interest in travel writing of recent years, the essays follow
written journeys to Graham Greene's Liberia and Lorca's Cuba, to
Fascist Italy's Greece and France's Indochina, and many more.
Throughout, texts and authors are shown to be alive with hybrid
constructions of self and of ideological, national and colonial
identity. What is more, the book provides compelling reasons for
seeing 1930s travel writing as being of particular fascination,
lying on a cusp between the Depression, totalitarianism,
colonialism and modernism, and the seeds of mass tourism,
post-colonialism and globalization.* Re-reading German literature
since 1945, Robert Gordon, Cambridge University The 1930s were one
of the most important decades in defining the history of the
twentieth century. It saw the rise of right-wing nationalism, the
challenge to established democracies and the full force of
imperialist aggression. Cultural Encounters makes an important
contribution to our understanding of the ideological and cultural
forces which were active in defining notions of national identity
in the 1930s. By examining the work of writers and journalists from
a range of European countries who used the medium of travel writing
to articulate perceptions of their own and other cultures, the book
gives a comprehensive account of the complex intellectual climate
of the 1930s. Charles Burdett is lecturer in Italian at the
University of Bristol and co-editor of European Memories of the
Second World War (1999). He is currently working on representations
of Africa in fascist Italy. Derek Duncan is lecturer in Italian at
the University of Bristol. He has published extensively on
twentieth century Italian literature with particular reference to
questions of gender and sexuality.
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