With essays by Gloria Anzaldua, Jean Baudrillard, William Bevis,
Homi Bhabha, Michel Butor, Helene Cixous, Erik Cohen, Michel de
Certeau, Wayne Franklin, Paul Fussell, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Caren
Kaplan, Eric Leed, Dean MacCannell, Doreen Massey, Carl Pedersen,
Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Mary Louise Pratt, R. Radhakrishnan, Edward
W. Said, and Thayer Scudder Travel, movement, mobility--these are
some of the essential activities in human life. Whether we travel
to foreign lands or just across the city, we all journey, and from
our journeying we shape ourselves, our history, and the stories we
tell. In essays written by some of the most respected contemporary
scholars, this anthology brings together some of the best informed
convictions about travel. Travel, so essential to human life, is a
complex matter that encompasses a variety of travel
experiences--family vacation, political exile, exploration of
distant lands, immigration, mundane shopping trips. Likewise, as
the essays in the collection demonstrate, discussion of travel
crosses a range of personal and theoretical perspectives--from the
postmodern sensibility of Jean Baudrillard to R. Radhakrishnan's
explanation to his son of what it means for Indians to live in the
United States. As the field of travel itself ""travels"" across
academic and theoretical boundaries, it brings together sociology,
anthropology, geography, history, psychology, and literary
criticism. Recognizing that multidimensional quality of travel,
this book gathers essays that represent various travel experiences
and approaches to discussing them. Mapping out definitions of
travel, the collection includes essays on tourism and travel
writing, on modern globalization and the diaspora, on immigration,
migration, and forced relocation. Defining Travel also highlights
American experiences of mobility by including essays on Native
Americans and early contact with the New World, as well as the
massive migration of African Americans to northern cities. Running
throughout the essays are sometimes conflicting discussions about
what constitutes travel and the homesite, the role of travel,
knowledge, and power, especially when travel is accompanied by
imperialistic motives. Here readers truly will discover that the
essence of human life is wayfaring. Susan L. Roberson, an assistant
professor of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, is
the editor of Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of
Relocation and author of Emerson in His Sermons: A Man-Made Self.
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