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Abstract
A collection of essays grounded in the author’s own personal and intellectual journeys, which tackles themes questioning the significance and meaning of travel. It asks how and why we travel, where we are going and what we hope to achieve by stepping into globalism. The book considers our current globalist sensibility as both similar to and divergent from the 18th- and 19th-century experiences of travel and travel writing, uncovering those motives and appreciations that are so keenly woven into the imperial enterprise. These elements come together to create an engaging ‘around-the- world voyage’, offering both concrete case studies and lively, thoughtful anecdotes.
Randy Malamud is regents’ professor of English at Georgia State University and the author of eight books, including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls. He regularly writes for Salon and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Part I: The Globalist Humanist Tourist | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1: Home and Away | 3 | ||
| Chapter 2: Should I Stay or Should I Go? | 19 | ||
| Chapter 3: Travel vs Tourism | 33 | ||
| Chapter 4: Fear of Flying | 47 | ||
| Chapter 5: Travel Reading: Reading Travel | 57 | ||
| Chapter 6: ‘The Importance of Elsewhere’ | 73 | ||
| Part II: Engaging the World | 83 | ||
| Chapter 7: LEEDS: Literary Tourism | 87 | ||
| Chapter 8: ŁOÅLDZÅL: Monty Python’s Academic Circus | 93 | ||
| Chapter 9: COPENHAGEN: Projecting a Triumphant Queer Moment | 105 | ||
| Chapter 10: LONDON: Sex 2.0 | 113 | ||
| Chapter 11: COTTBUS: Weltspiegel | 121 | ||
| Chapter 12: BAGHDAD: Reconstructing Iraqi Academe | 131 | ||
| Chapter 13: BERLIN: The Psychogeography of Tempelhof Airport | 139 | ||
| Chapter 14: TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Penguins at the End of the World | 149 | ||
| Chapter 15: ZAGREB: The Subversive Summit | 157 | ||
| Chapter 16: SZOLNOK: Science and Film | 165 | ||
| Chapter 17: BERLIN: Gestapo Headquarters | 173 | ||
| Chapter 18: DUBAI: A Cinematic Door to the Middle East | 181 | ||
| Chapter 19: WARSAW: The Bores of Academe | 189 | ||
| Chapter 20: COURMAYEUR: Noir | 195 | ||
| Chapter 21: SVALBARD: Introduction to Arctic Studies | 203 | ||
| Postscript | 211 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 215 | ||
| References | 217 | ||
| Notes | 225 | ||
| Index | 227 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |