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Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures - The Persistence of Diversity (Hardcover)
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Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures - The Persistence of Diversity (Hardcover)
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This book is one of the first studies of twentieth-century travel
literature in French, tracking the form from the colonial past to
the postcolonial present. Whereas most recent explorations of
travel literature have addressed English-language material,
Forsdick's study complements these by presenting a body of material
that has previously attracted little attention, ranging from
conventional travel writing to other cultural phenomena (such as
the Colonial Exposition of 1931) in which changing attitudes to
travel are apparent.
Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures
explores the evolution of attitudes to cultural diversity,
explaining how each generation seems simultaneously to foretell the
collapse and reinvention of "elsewhere." It also follows the
progressive renegotiation of understandings of travel (and travel
literature) across the twentieth century, focusing in particular on
the emergence of travel narratives from France's former colonies.
The book suggests that an exclusive colonial understanding of
travel as a practice defined along the lines of class, gender, and
ethnicity has slowly been transformed so that travel has become an
enabling figure--encapsulated in notions such as James Clifford's
"traveling cultures"--central to analyses of contemporary global
culture. Engaging initially with Victor Segalen's early
twentieth-century reflection on travel and exoticism and Albert
Kahn's "Archives de la Planete," Forsdick goes on to examine a
series of interrelated texts and phenomena: early African travel
narratives, inter-war ethnography, post-war accounts of Citroen 2CV
journeys, the travel stories of immigrant workers, the work of
Nicholas Bouvier andthe Pour une litterature voyageuse movement,
narratives of recent walking journeys, and contemporary Polynesian
literature. In delineating a francophone space stretching far
beyond metropolitan France itself, the book contributes to new
understandings of French and Francophone Studies, and will also be
of interest to those interested in issues of comparatism as well as
colonial and postcolonial culture and identity.
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