Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer

What is it about?

Travel writing and cultural transfer addresses the multifaceted concept of cultural transfer through travel writing, with the aim of expanding our knowledge of modes of travel in the past and present, how they changed, as did the way in which travel was reported. Travel as both factual and fictional, is one of the many forms travel writers have used to illustrate the fluidity of the genre, with the authors and narrative both moving between different worlds. This is one of the reasons that processes of cultural transfer in this genre are so manifold and powerful.

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Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Travel writing and cultural transfer also illustrate that cultural transfer not infrequently is linked to issues of power, colonialism and politics. This volume is a fine example of a transhistorical approach of tranvel writing.

Perspectives

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Working togehter with my co-editor dr. Jeanette den Toonder and contributors from different linguistic areas was inspiring and I learned a lot about travel literature through the ages

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