Questions of Travel
Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
«“Questions of Travel is a multilayered inquiry into the ideological function of metaphors in discourses of displacement. Kaplan richly historicizes these metaphors in order to explicate the situated meanings that inhere in the myriad kinds of displacement that characterizes contemporary writing and lives. Her meditations on the rhetorics of displacement—including nomadism, exile, migrancy, and other practices of movement across space—take the reader on an exciting excursion into the fraught politics of travel discourse.”—Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz»
Explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "travelling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism. Les mer
Explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "travelling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism.
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- Forlag
- Duke University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780822318286
- Utgivelsesår
- 1996
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«“Questions of Travel is a multilayered inquiry into the ideological function of metaphors in discourses of displacement. Kaplan richly historicizes these metaphors in order to explicate the situated meanings that inhere in the myriad kinds of displacement that characterizes contemporary writing and lives. Her meditations on the rhetorics of displacement—including nomadism, exile, migrancy, and other practices of movement across space—take the reader on an exciting excursion into the fraught politics of travel discourse.”—Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz»
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