Questions of travel : postmodern discourses of displacement /

Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces t...

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Main Author: Kaplan, Caren, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1996.
Series:Post-contemporary interventions.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Questions of Travel: An Introduction
  • 1. "This Question of Moving": Modern Exile/Postmodern Tourism
  • 2. Becoming Nomad: Poststructuralist Deterritorializations
  • 3. Traveling Theorists: Cosmopolitan Diasporas
  • 4. Postmodern Geographies: Feminist Politics of Location.