Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement [Paperback]

George Robertson (Author)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Oct 17 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415070163
ISBN-13: 978-0415070164
Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 526 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #809,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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From time to time, most of us either adopt a "tourist" identity or are framed within another's experience of travel and voyeurism. Travellers' Tales investigates the future of travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourse of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting, appropriating or representing other cultures; and tourism.
Travellers' Tales sways between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in strange and unfamiliar lands. The contributors review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials, and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encoutering the "Other."

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George Robertson, Melinda Mash, Lisa Tickner, Jon Bird, Barry Curtis and Tim Putnam are all from Middlesex

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4.0 out of 5 stars soap as a symbol of British imperialism, Sep 30 2006

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This review is from: Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement (Hardcover)

The book brings in a complex mixture of associations with the concept of identity and travel. Where here travel means not just a physical displacement from another crucial concept of home, but also a change in identity. Thus we see refugees and their experiences. Refugees from apartheid South Africa, who had to flee to other African countries, or to Britain.

You must check out a hilarious chapter on soap in the British Empire. I kid you not. There are reproductions of ads from the 1890s that depict soap, white naturally, as part of a civilising, imperialistic mission. McClintock gives an incisive analysis of that era, using soap and the surviving ads as eloquent testimonials to the not-very subliminal memes circulating amongst the British.

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