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No esperes de mí los mapas : las derivas del viaje en la literatura hispánica del siglo XXI
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ISBN: 9788491923299 9783968693880 Year: 2023 Publisher: Madrid : Frankfurt am Main : Iberoamericana ; Vervuert,

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El viajero contemporáneo no brinda mapas a su regreso. Lejos de un afán descriptivo o documental, en las primeras décadas del siglo XXI el viaje literario no solo se nutre temáticamente del desplazamiento sino que además lo encarna con la constante variación de sus estructuras. En un contexto de profundo calado de la retórica del viaje, este ensayo parte de una reflexión sobre los conceptos de movilidad y mutación que definen a un tiempo el presente y las obras literarias que cifran su existencia en la superación de unas fronteras que son geográficas, pero también creativas. Esta naturaleza propicia su devenir genérico, dando lugar a las derivas o desviaciones del relato híbrido respecto al paradigma tradicional. En el curso de estas derivas se identifican, además, tres vi(r)ajes genéricos que implican a la forma del relato y en los que el viaje se acerca a las formas híbridas de la crónica, el dietario y el ensayo. Situado en la encrucijada que forman los vi(r)ajes y los tres grandes territorios donde se despliega la escritura en movimiento —el espacio por el que transita, la experiencia identitaria que supone y la literatura con la que dialoga—, el corpus analizado en este volumen da cuenta de la diversidad editorial que atañe al relato de viaje así como de la heterogeneidad formal de unos textos que prefieren el trayecto al destino, el estilo fragmentario y digresivo a la exhaustiva descripción. No esperes de mí los mapas. Las derivas del viaje en la literatura hispánica del siglo XXI explora, en fin, los relatos del viajero contemporáneo que acomoda su condición errante a la escritura.


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Barrès en mouvement : dans l'atelier des voyages
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ISBN: 9782600064255 Year: 2023 Publisher: Genève : Droz,

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"Reposant sur l'exploitation du riche fonds de la BnF, cette étude rouvre le dossier de Maurice Barrès (1862-1923), écrivain aujourd'hui relativement tombé dans l'oubli. Les écrits de voyage, articles, essais, romans ou nouvelles, permettent d'aborder l'auteur dans toute sa complexité et ses contradictions, ainsi que de le replacer dans une histoire littéraire allant de Chateaubriand à Gide et incluant bien des journalistes contemporains peu connus. À partir du cas de Barrès, il s'agit d'interroger ce qu'est le voyage pour un homme de lettres de la Belle Époque qui, après l'ère des Romantiques, en pleine époque symboliste, défend une esthétique des 'yeux clos' en réaction au naturalisme et s'oppose au pittoresque des images, puis qui devient l'une des voix majeures du nationalisme. Comment dès lors comprendre la sortie de l'écrivain de son cabinet de travail, le fait d'arpenter le monde muni de carnets? Le volume tend ainsi à saisir la manière dont un lettré fait du voyage non seulement un des moyens réguliers de remettre en mouvement ses idées et ses images, mais aussi un élément central de sa scénographie auctoriale et de sa relation à la société de son temps"


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Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020.
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ISBN: 9048554764 9463726268 Year: 2023 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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1860–2020 invites readers to explore Mongolia as an important cultural space for Western travelers and their audiences over three historical eras. Travelers have framed their experiences and observations through imaginative geographies and Orientalizing discourses, fixing Mongolia as a peripheral, timeless, primitive, and parochial place. Readers can examine the travelers’ literary and rhetorical strategies as they make themselves more credible and authoritative and as they identify themselves with Mongolians and Mongolian culture or, conversely, distance themselves. In this book, readers can also approach travel writing from the perspective of women travelers, Mongolian socialist intellectuals, twenty-first-century travelers, and a Han Chinese writer, Jiang Rong, who promotes cultural harmony yet anticipates the disappearance of Mongolian culture in China.


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Journal d’un voyage en Italie et en Allemagne (1721-1722)
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ISBN: 9782406148418 9782406148425 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris : Classiques Garnier,

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Le Journal d’un voyage en Italie et en Allemagne est une source originale, inédite à ce jour, écrit en 1721 et 1722 par Carl Friedrich Necker (1686-1762), père de Jacques Necker, le ministre de Louis XVI, et grand-père de l’écrivaine des Lumières, Germaine de Staël. --


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Bosnian Hajj Literature
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ISBN: 1474494129 1474494137 1474494102 Year: 2023 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd,

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This is the first critical and theoretically grounded book-length study of Hajj literature (written texts about the experience of the Hajj) and Hajj practices of Bosnian Muslims. It redefines the ways pilgrimage can be understood and offers new methods for investigating the meaning and importance of Hajj for generations of premodern and modern believers. It also throws light on Balkan communities previously ignored by modern scholarship in Islamic, religious, and area studies. Breaking with the predominant academic trends of focusing on nationalism and ethnic conflict in the region, it instead puts the spotlight on the richness of texts, and visual and archival material, and focuses on genres that challenge the established literary canons.


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A Woman's Empire : Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia
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ISBN: 1487545622 1487545614 Year: 2023 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press,

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"A Woman’s Empire explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively engaged in the process of late imperial expansion. The book investigates how women writers, travellers, and scientists who journeyed to and beyond Central Asia participated in Russia’s “civilizing” and colonizing mission, utilizing newly found educational opportunities while navigating powerful discourses of femininity as well as male-dominated science. Katya Hokanson shows how these Russian women resisted domestic roles in a variety of ways. The women writers include a governor general’s wife, a fiction writer who lived in Turkestan, and a famous Theosophist, among others. They make clear the perspectives of the ruling class and outline the special role of women as describers and recorders of information about local women, and as builders of “civilized” colonial Russian society with its attendant performances and social events. Although the bulk of their writings, drawings, and photography is primarily noteworthy for its cultural and historical value, A Woman’s Empire demonstrates how they also add dimension and detail to the story of Russian imperial expansion and illuminates how women encountered, imagined, and depicted Russia’s imperial Other during this period."--

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