Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing
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Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing by Kristi Siegel
Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters - irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women's travel writing, these provocative essays not only affirm the impact of gender, but also cast women's journeys against coordinates such as race, class, culture, religion, economics, politics, and history. The book's scope is unique: Women travelers extend in time from Victorian memsahibs to contemporary «road girls», and topics range from Anna Leonowens's slanted portrayal of Siam - later popularized in the movie, The King and I, to current feminist «descripting» of the male-road-buddy genre. The extensive array of writers examined includes Nancy Prince, Frances Trollope, Cameron Tuttle, Lady Mary Montagu, Catherine Oddie, Kate Karko, Frances Calderón de la Barca, Rosamond Lawrence, Zilpha Elaw, Alexandra David-Néel, Amelia Edwards, Erica Lopez, Paule Marshall, Bharati Mukherjee, and Marilynne Robinson.
The Editor: Kristi Siegel is Associate Professor of English at Mount Mary College in Wisconsin and earned her Ph.D. in modern studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Women's Autobiographies, Culture, Feminism (Peter Lang, 2001), and is currently editing a collection of essays about women's travel writing, Gender, Genre, Identity in Women's Travel Writing (Peter Lang, forthcoming). She also serves as general editor for the book series «Travel Writing Across the Disciplines» (Peter Lang), and has published various articles on postmodern, feminist, cultural, and autobiographical theory.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780820449050 |
| ISBN 10 | 0820449059 |
| Title | Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing |
| Author | Kristi Siegel |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Year published | 2004-07-19 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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