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Format: 1 online resource (324 pages)

ISBN: 9781442688810 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Moynagh, Maureen Anne, 1963- Political tourism and its texts. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c2008 ISBN 9780802098450

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books. ; History. ; Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442688810

Content: 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.

Note: 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

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442688810

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688810