Political Tourism and Its Texts is at once an insightful study of modern writers and the causes that inspired them, and a call to address, with political urgency, contemporary neo-imperialism and the politics of global inequality.
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Political Tourism and Its Texts is at once an insightful study of modern writers and the causes that inspired them, and a call to address, with political urgency, contemporary neo-imperialism and the politics of global inequality.
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Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: Political Tourism and its Texts -- -- 1. Cunard’s Lines: Political Touring and the Making of the Negro Anthology -- -- 2. Revolutionary Drag in Auden and Isherwood’s Journey to a War -- -- 3. ‘Speaking Bitterness’: Agnes Smedley in China -- -- 4. ‘Following in the Footsteps of Che’: Political Tourism as a Strategy for Entering and Leaving Modernity -- -- 5. The Postcolonial Migrant as Political Tourist: Salman Rushdie’s The Jaguar Smile -- -- 6. Political Tourism as Transnational Feminist Practice: Margaret Randall, Rebecca Gordon, and Adrienne Rich -- -- Epilogue -- -- Notes -- -- Works Cited -- -- Illustration Credits -- -- Index
Following an introductory chapter by Mary Gallagher, which maps this conceptual terrain, the contributors investigate how globalization inflects the necessary relationship between poetics, culture, ethics, and politics.
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Following an introductory chapter by Mary Gallagher, which maps this conceptual terrain, the contributors investigate how globalization inflects the necessary relationship between poetics, culture, ethics, and politics.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publishers Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Editor’s Note -- -- 1. Poetics, Ethics, and Globalization -- -- .2 Transnational Languages in Glissant’s ‘Tout-monde’ -- -- 3. Relating (in Theory) in a Globalized World: Between Levinas’s Ethics and Glissant’s Poetics -- -- 4. French Theory -- -- 5. Redrawing the Hexagon: The Space of Culture in Malraux and Blanchot -- -- 6. Not Your Uncle: Text, Sex, and the Globalized Moroccan Author -- -- 7. Rationality, Realism, and the Poet(h)ic Problem of Otherness: J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello -- -- 8. Planetary Longings: Sitting in the Light of the Great Solar TV -- -- 9. Reframing Global/Local Poetics in the Post-imperial Pacific: Meditations on ‘Displacement,’ Indigeneity, and the Misrecognitions of US Area Studies -- -- Bibliography -- -- Notes on Contributors
