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Narratives of Cyprus - Modern Travel Writing and Cultural Encounters since Lawrence Durrell (Hardcover)
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Narratives of Cyprus - Modern Travel Writing and Cultural Encounters since Lawrence Durrell (Hardcover)
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Unease has marked relations between modern travel writers and the
people of Cyprus. Visitors like Lawrence Durrell, Colin Thubron,
Christopher Hitchens and Sebastian Junger have registered the
effects of political strife on both the people of the island and
those who visit from abroad. Their accounts demonstrate how
geopolitical realities-such as colonization, insurgency,
inter-communal warfare, and now decades of militarized
'peace'-shape the narrating self and its relations to others. Here,
Jim Bowman assesses the effects of Cypriot history on writings
about the island through an analysis of memoirs, travelogues,
political journalism, guide books and ethnographies. Through this
examination of popular texts, Bowman shows how a western and
politicized image of Cyprus has been created, increasingly divorced
from the realities experienced by the local population. "Narratives
of Cyprus" is an important reassessment of Cyprus' place in British
culture, and will be of interest to scholars and students of
Anthropology, English Literature and Ethnographic Studies.
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