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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Cambridge Companion To Postcolonial Travel Writing by Robert Clarke
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles performances and forms postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places cultures and communities that are simultaneously living within through and after colonialism in its various guises. The Companion is organized into three parts. Part I Departures addresses key theoretical issues topics and themes. Part II Performances examines a range of conventional and emerging travel performances and styles in postcolonial travel writing. Part III Peripheries continues to shift the analysis of travel writing from the traditional focus on Eurocentric contexts. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field appealing to students and teachers of travel writing and postcolonial studies.