Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement

by Caren Kaplan

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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 the political implications of this "traveling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822318210

ISBN13:9780822318217

Release Date:August 1996

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences Postmodernism

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