Travel literature | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 41 pages of analysis & critique of Travel literature.

Travel literature | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 41 pages of analysis & critique of Travel literature.
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SOURCE: Johnson, David E. “‘Writing in the Dark’: The Political Fictions of American Travel Writing.” American Literary History 7, no. 1 (spring 1995): 1-27.

In the following essay, Johnson uses three texts to juxtapose literary traditions surrounding travel narratives originating in the Americas.

The phoneme, the akoumenon, is the phenomenon of the labyrinth.

Jacques Derrida, Speech and Phenomena

En todas partes del mundo, hasta en los desiertos, los Estados Unidos han establecido sus hoteles e impuesto el American Way of Life, el coctail lounge, el lobby, el excusado con su cinturón de castidad, el papel higiénico (suave como el pétalo de una rosa), para que el norteamericano, a quien le ha entrado una verdadera fiebre viajera, se sienta at home everywhere.

Elena Poniatowska, Fuerte es el silencio

I'm not a tourist.

Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express

In the epilogue to The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey, Salman...

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