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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel - The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization (Paperback)
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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel - The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization (Paperback)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of
alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels
that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a
culturally unfamiliar place. Levin explores two questions: why does
travel to an "undiscovered" place-one imagined outside the bounds
of modernity-remain an enduring preoccupation in western
civilization; and how does the representation of adventure travel
change in the era of mass culture, when global capitalism expands
at a rapid pace. The book argues that whereas travel writers
between the wars romanticized their journeys overseas, travel
writing after World War II takes an increasingly melancholic and
nihilistic view of a commercial society in which adventure travel
no longer proves capable of producing a sense of authentic
selfhood. Through close analysis of specific texts and authors, the
book provides a rich discussion of anglophone literature in the
cultural context of the twentieth-century. It examines the capacity
of popular culture for social critique, the relationship between
leisure travel and postcolonial cultures, and the idealization of
selfhood and authenticity in modern and postmodern culture. The
study reflects the best potential of interdisciplinary scholarship,
and will prove influential for anyone working in the fields of
contemporary literature, cultural theory, and cross-cultural
studies.
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