Title Interwar itineraries : authenticity in Anglophone and French travel writing / Emily O. Wittman

Published Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, [2022] ©2022

Click on the following:
JSTOR Open Access
Project Muse Open Access eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (vii, 224 pages) Summary How people traveled, and how people wrote about travel, changed in the interwar years. Novel technologies eased travel conditions, breeding new iterations of the colonizing gaze. The sense that another war was coming lent urgency and anxiety to the search for new places and "authentic" experiences. In Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing, Emily O. Wittman identifies a diverse group of writers from two languages who embarked on such quests. For these writers, authenticity was achieved through rugged adventure abroad to economically poorer destinations. Using translation theory and new approaches in travel studies and global modernisms, Wittman links and complicates the symbolic and rhetorical strategies of writers including André Gide, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Leiris, Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, among others, that offer insight into the high ethical stakes of travel and allow us to see in new ways how models of the authentic self are built and maintained through asymmetries of encounter Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) Notes This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Description based on information from the publisher Subject Travel writing -- English-speaking countries -- 20th century -- History and criticism Travel writing -- French-speaking countries -- 20th century -- History and criticism Travelers' writings, English -- 20th century -- History and criticism Travelers' writings, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism Travelers' writings, French -- 20th century -- History and criticism Travel in literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Literary Criticism. Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century. Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature. Travel in literature Travel writing Travelers' writings, American Travelers' writings, English Travelers' writings, French English-speaking countries French-speaking countries Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Amherst College. Press, publisher. Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), issuing body. ISBN 9781943208319 194320831X

  Permalink