The Importance of Elsewhere
The Globalist Humanist Tourist
Published on 15. May 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-78320-874-6 (ISBN)
Description
Why do we travel? What are we doing - and what do we imagine we are doing - when we leave the house, get on a plane and thereby step into globalism? The Importance of Elsewhere is a collection of essays, rooted in Randy Malamud's own lifetime of travel, that addresses those questions and more. Setting today's tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty that are deeply woven into the imperial enterprise - and that remain key drivers of our interest in and enjoyment of travel today. Marrying concrete case studies and lively personal anecdotes, The Importance of Elsewhere will be of interest to any global traveler who has ever stopped to wonder what it is that draws her to faraway places.
Reviews / Votes
'Randy Malamud, a distinguished American professor of English . . . likes to get on planes. He is not a naive tourist but a "travelling humanist". He might carry a lot of literary baggage, but he travels light. His knowledge informs his tourism. It doesn't squash it... He recognises the dangers of travel. Planes can carry nasty bacteria to anywhere with an international airport. But Malamud wants to be a carrier of ease rather than disease, transmitting to his readers the way travel can provoke joy, widen our aesthetics and offer a buffet of experiences.' -- Jeremy MacClancy * Times Higher Education *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Intellect
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
432 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78320-874-6 (9781783208746)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
Intellect Books
€28.99
Available for download
Person
Randy Malamud is the Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University and the author of eight books, including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls. He regularly writes for Salon and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Content
Home and Away
Randy Malamud
Should I Stay or Should I go?
Randy Malamud
Travel or Tourism
Randy Malamud
Fear of Flying
Randy Malamud
Travel Reading: Reading Travel
Randy Malamud
'The Importance of Elsewhere'
Randy Malamud
LEEDS: Literary Tourism
Randy Malamud
LODZ: Monty Python's Academic Circus
Randy Malamud
COPENHAGEN: Projecting a Triumphant Queer Moment
Randy Malamud
LONDON: Sex 2.0
Randy Malamud
COTTBUS: Weltspiegel
Randy Malamud
BAGHDAD: Reconstructing Iraqi Academe
Randy Malamud
TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Penguins at the End of the World
Randy Malamud
ZAGREB: The Subversive Summit
Randy Malamud
SZOLNOK: Science and Film
Randy Malamud
BERLIN: Gestapo Headquarters
Randy Malamud
DUBAI: A Cinematic Door to the Middle East
Randy Malamud
WARSAW: The Bores of Academe
Randy Malamud
COURMAYEUR: Noir
Randy Malamud
SVALBARD: Introduction to Arctic Studies
Randy Malamud
Randy Malamud
Should I Stay or Should I go?
Randy Malamud
Travel or Tourism
Randy Malamud
Fear of Flying
Randy Malamud
Travel Reading: Reading Travel
Randy Malamud
'The Importance of Elsewhere'
Randy Malamud
LEEDS: Literary Tourism
Randy Malamud
LODZ: Monty Python's Academic Circus
Randy Malamud
COPENHAGEN: Projecting a Triumphant Queer Moment
Randy Malamud
LONDON: Sex 2.0
Randy Malamud
COTTBUS: Weltspiegel
Randy Malamud
BAGHDAD: Reconstructing Iraqi Academe
Randy Malamud
TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Penguins at the End of the World
Randy Malamud
ZAGREB: The Subversive Summit
Randy Malamud
SZOLNOK: Science and Film
Randy Malamud
BERLIN: Gestapo Headquarters
Randy Malamud
DUBAI: A Cinematic Door to the Middle East
Randy Malamud
WARSAW: The Bores of Academe
Randy Malamud
COURMAYEUR: Noir
Randy Malamud
SVALBARD: Introduction to Arctic Studies
Randy Malamud