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How people traveled, and how people wrote about travel, changed in the interwar years. Novel technologies eased travel conditions, breeding new iterations of the colonizing gaze. The sense that another war was coming lent urgency and anxiety to the search for new places and “authentic” experiences. In Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing, Emily O. Wittman identifies a diverse group of writers from two languages who embarked on such quests. For these writers, authenticity was achieved through rugged adventure abroad to economically poorer destinations. Using translation theory and new approaches in travel studies and global modernisms, Wittman links and complicates the symbolic and rhetorical strategies of writers including André Gide, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Leiris, Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, among others, that offer insight into the high ethical stakes of travel and allow us to see in new ways how models of the authentic self are built and maintained through asymmetries of encounter.

Literature: history & criticism --- Literary studies: from c 1900 --- -Literature: history and criticism;Comparative literature;Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 --- -Literature: history & criticism --- Travel writing --- Travelers' writings, English --- Travelers' writings, American --- Travelers' writings, French --- Travel in literature --- History and criticism. --- Voyages and travels in literature --- French travelers' writings --- French literature --- American travelers' writings --- American literature --- English travelers' writings --- English literature --- Travel --- Authorship

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Comparing the variant ideologies of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European travelogues, India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives concerns a relatively neglected area of study and often overlooked writers. Relating the narratives to contemporary ideas and beliefs, Rita Banerjee argues that travelwriters, many of them avid Protestants, seek to negativize India by constructing her in opposition to Europe, the supposed norm, by deliberately erasing affinities and indulging in the politics of disavowal. However, some travelogues show a neutral stance by dispassionate ethnographic reporting, indicating a growing empirical trend. Yet others, influenced by the Enlightenment ideas of diversity, demonstrate tolerance of alien practices and, occasionally, acceptance of the superior rationality of the other's customs.

English prose literature - 17th century - History and criticism. --- Travelers' writings, English - India - History and criticism. --- India - In literature. --- India - Description and travel. --- English prose literature --- Travelers' writings, English. --- History and criticism. --- English travelers' writings --- English literature --- India --- In literature. --- Description and travel. --- Fiction --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- Travelers' writings, English --- History and criticism