... orientalist works by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, Edward Lane and Jean-François Champollion, and travelogues by Martineau, ... chapter relates her arrival with L. at the Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo and records the 'miscellaneous gathering' ...
This new edition of her most powerful novel allows twenty-first century readers to rediscover and reevaluate this fascinating writer.
Communities and Cultural Production Kam Louie, Julia Kuehn, David M. Pomfret. New Zealanders. For Jocelyn to break out of this discursive bind, she must find meaningful alternative discourses of identity, not only to re/con/figure her ...
Leading international scholars examine the production of culture during China's rise to global superpower in the last quarter of a century.
While this book represents the work of expert scholars, it is also accessible to non-specialists with an interest in travel writing and China, and care has been taken to explain the critical terms and ideas deployed in the essays from ...
This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of ...
Gumilev and Slesserov; for additional twists and tidbits, see also a recent non- scholarly, but bookish and well-informed travelogue by Nicholas Jubber, The Prester Quest (London: Transworld Publishers, 2005).
This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse.
... life abroad, however, often defies a unified Chineseness, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, a result I would like to ... Moon in New York/Ren Zai Niuye (hereafter Full Moon) and An Autumn's Tale/Qiu Tian De Tong Hua are films that are ...