Issues in Travel Writing : Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement

Contents: Kristi Siegel: Travel Writing and Travel Theory -- Edward Whitley: Race and Modernity in Theodore Roosevelt's and Ernest Hemingway's African Travel Writing -- Melanie R. Hunter: British Travel Writing and Imperial Authority -- Adam Piette: Travel Writing and the Imperial Subject in 1930s Prose: Waugh, Bowen, Smith, and Orwell -- Cecilia Novero: Contemporary German Journeys to Italy -- Andrea Feeser: Constance Fredericka Gordon Cumming's « Picturesque Vision: A Christian, Westernized Hawai'i -- Kristi Siegel/Toni B. Wulff: Travel as Spectacle: The Illusion of Knowledge and Sight -- Marco Diani: Baudrillard's Explorations of Tocqueville's America: Wandering in Hyper-democracy -- Gary Totten: Simone de Beauvoir's America Day by Day: Reel to Real -- Cynthia Ho: St. Lawrence and the Pagans in The Marvels of Rome -- Theodore C. Humphrey: John McPhee's Spiritual Journeys: The Authenticating Eye -- Donna Foran: Kurt Vonnegut's Search for Soul -- Heidi N. Sjostrom: Willa Cather's Nebraska Prairie: Remembering the Spirit of its Land and People -- Maria Francisca Llantada Diaz: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage as a Journey. Down to the Center of Being -- Joseph Pugliese: In the Ruins of Diaspora: A Southern Italian Perspective -- Andrew Palmer: (Re)-Visiting Der Heim: The Amazing Return to the Place You've Never Been Which Isn't There -- Katy Nebhan: Australian Muslim Experiences of the Meccan Pilgrimage or Hajj -- Pallavi Rastogi: A Million Enigmas Now: V.S. Naipaul's Use of Landscape in the Construction of the « English Self -- Jan Borm: Jonathan Raban's Coasting and Literary Strategies in Contemporary British Travel Writing.