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100	1		_aKaplan, Caren
245	1	0	_aQuestions of travel : _bpostmodern discourses of displacement / _cCaren Kaplan.
260			_bDuke University Press _aDurham, N. C _c1996
300			_a238 p.
490	0		_aPost-contemporary interventions
505	0		_aQuestions of Travel: An Introduction. -- 1.- This Question of Moving": Modern Exile/Postmodern Tourism. -- 2.- Becoming Nomad: Poststructuralist Deterritorializations. -- 3.- Traveling Theorists: Cosmopolitan Diasporas. -- 4.- Postmodern Geographies: Feminist Politics of Location.
520			_aContemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "traveling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism.\Addressing a wide range of writers, including Paul Fussell, Edward Said, James Clifford, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Soja, Doreen Massey, Chandra Mohanty, and Adrienne Rich, Kaplan demonstrates that symbols and metaphors of travel are used in ways that obscure key differences of power between nationalities, classes, races, and genders. Neither rejecting nor dismissing the powerful testimony of individual experiences of modern exile or displacement, Kaplan asks how mystified metaphors of travel might be avoided. With a focus on theory's colonial discourses, she reveals how these metaphors continue to operate in the seemingly liberatory critical zones of poststructuralism and feminist theory. The book concludes with a critique of the politics of location as a form of essentialist identity politics and calls for new feminist geographies of place and displacement.\An important and timely intervention into contemporary theoretical debates, Questions of Travel will be of interest to scholars in a wide variety of disciplines, including literary criticism, cultural studies, feminist theory, colonial and postcolonial studies, geography, anthropology, and sociology.
650		4	_aVIAJES EN LA LITERATURA
650		4	_aPOSTMODERNISMO (LITERATURA)
650		4	_aLITERATURA MODERNA _xHISTORIA Y CRITICA
653			_aGEOGRAFIA
658			_aGarrido, Marcelo
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