This book considers how contemporary travelers from Latin
America write their journeys at and about home. How do Latin
American writers of the late twentieth-century negotiate the hybrid
and volatile category of travel writing, which has been shaped in
large part by myriad Euro-American travelers? How do they engage
with the enduring myths about the region perpetuated by their
imperial/ist predecessors? And, if not journeys of expansion or
exploration, on precisely what kinds of 'travel' do their own
journeys rest? Drawing on ideas from many disciplines, including
anthropology, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural studies,
this book considers contemporary journey narratives from Latin
America through a series of case studies concerning four key sites
of travel, each of which engenders particular forms of travel and
travel narrative: Patagonia, the Andes, Mexico and the Mexico-US
border. This book thus explores the complex practice and
representation of journeys in the region by writers including Luis
Sepulveda, Mempo Giardinelli, Andres Ruggeri, Ana Garcia Bergua,
Silvia Molina, Maria Luisa Puga, Ruben Martinez and Luis Alberto
Urrea. In doing so, it explores questions relating to mobility,
representation, and globalization that are of widespread concern
across the world today."
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