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Travelers' writings, Australian --- Australian fiction --- Travel writing --- History and criticism. --- Aboriginal Australian authors --- History and criticism. --- History.

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In one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised (originally published in 1982 and unavailable for many years), the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact. Asking a range of questions 'What is a photograph?' 'What do photographs mean?' 'How can they be used?' they give their answers in terms of a photograph as 'a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photography are often contradictory'. From these beginnings they develop a theory of photography that has at its centre the form's essential ambiguity, arguing that photography is totally unlike a film and has nothing to do with reportage. Rather, it constitutes 'another way of telling'. The unique combination of critic and photographer results in a work that moves beyond the landmarks established by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag to establish a new theory of photography. This unique combination of words and pictures includes 230 photographs by Jean Mohr.

Photography --- Photographers --- Travel writing --- 77.01 --- Fotografie ; theorie --- Artists --- Travel --- Authorship --- Fotografie ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- photography [process] --- fotografie --- Sontag, Susan --- Barthes, Roland --- Benjamin, Walter

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Women intellectuals --- Travel writing --- Women translators --- Literature and society --- Women poets, American --- American women poets --- Translators --- Women linguists --- Travel --- Authorship --- Intellectuals --- Bishop, Elizabeth, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Homes and haunts --- Brazil --- Intellectual life

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Silvia Roig explores the narrative of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974), an unknown writer today, but a successful and recognized female author in Catalonia and Spain during the 20th century. Aurora Bertrana's works are almost never mentioned in manuals of literature. Her rich, intellectual work has not received the attention it deserves, relegated almost to absolute oblivion. The author reviews and studies twenty-four of Bertrana's novels written in Catalan and Spanish, including: Ariatea (1960), "El pomell de les violes" (MS), L'inefable Philip (MS), La aldea sin hombres (mn.), La madrecitade los cerdos (MS), Entre dos silencis (1958), La ninfa d'argila (1959), Fracás (1966) and La ciutat dels joves: reportatge fantasia (1971). She studies her work, published and unpublished, from a feminist approach, taking into account the intellectual history of Spain and Catalonia. Bertana's strong commitment to social issues reveals her association with the Modernist and Noucentists trends of her time. Bertrana's novels reveal a unique interest in non-Western cultures and lifestyles and her work undertakes controversial topics and socio-cultural issues, while she observes and draws special attention to the situation of women in different circumstances and cultural geographies. This book is therefore anchored on interpretive and theoretical parameters that intersect with consideration of gender, such as travel-and-gender and war-and-gender. Roig uses the work of feminists such as Simone De Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Jelke Boesten, Margaret and PatriceHigonnet, Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Julia Kristeva to help assess Bertrana's engagement with gender and socio-political issues. This approach is particularly well suited for a writer like Bertrana, a Catalan and Republican intellectual woman forced into self-exile during the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Silvia Roig is a Faculty Member, BMCC Department of Modern Languages, The City University of New York.

Bertrana, Aurora --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bertrana i Salazar, Aurora --- Bertrana Salazar, Aurora --- Salazar, Aurora Bertrana i --- Salazar, Aurora Bertrana --- Feminism in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Feminist theory in literature --- Autobiography. --- Catalan Literature. --- Catalonia. --- Contemporary History. --- Feminism. --- Fiction. --- Gender. --- Military History. --- Modernist. --- Noucentisme. --- Socio-cultural. --- Spain. --- Spanish Literature. --- Travel Writing. --- Utopic Fiction. --- War Writing. --- Warfare. --- Women's Writing.

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"Re-Orienting China challenges the notion of the travel writer as "imperialistic," while exploring the binary opposition of self/other. Featuring analyses of rarely studied writers on post-1949 China, including Jan Wong, Jock T. Wilson, Peter Hessler, Leslie T. Chang, Hill Gates, and Yi-Fu Tuan, Re-Orienting China demonstrates the transformative power of travel, as it changes our preconceived notions of home and abroad. Drawing on her own experience as a Chinese expat living in Canada, Leilei Chen embraces the possibility of productive cross-border relationships that are critical in today's globalized world. "An intriguing contribution to research. Postcolonial studies is in the process of exploring ways to get past the binary opposition of self/other, and books like Re-Orienting China are an important part of this project."--

Travelers' writings, American --- Americans --- Canadians --- Ethnology --- Yankees --- American travelers' writings --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- China --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs --- Description and travel --- S02/0300 --- S02/0310 --- S03/0523 --- History and criticism --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the World and vice-versa --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Geography, description and travel--Travels: since 1989 --- Communist. --- Orientalism. --- cultural connection. --- travel writing.