Cultural Encounters,9781571815019

Cultural Encounters

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ISBN13: 9781571815019
ISBN10: 1571815015
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-02-01
Publisher(s): Berghahn Books
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Summary

The 1930s were one of the most important decades in defining the history of the twentieth century. It saw the rise of right-wing nationalism, the challenge to established democracies and the full force of imperialist aggression. Cultural Encounters makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ideological and cultural forces which were active in defining notions of national identity in the 1930s. By examining the work of writers and journalists from a range of European countries who used the medium of travel writing to articulate perceptions of their own and other cultures, the book gives a comprehensive account of the complex intellectual climate of the 1930s.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
List of Contributors
viii
Introduction Cultural Encounters: European Travel-Writing in the 1930s 1(10)
Charles Burdett
Derek Duncan
Part 1: Introducing Travel
Journey with Maps: Travel Theory, Geography and the Syntax of Space
11(18)
Andrew Thacker
Sa(1)vaging Exoticism: New Approaches to 1930s Travel Literature in French
29(20)
Charles Forsdick
Part 2: Journeys in Europe
Travel and Autobiography: Giovanni Comisso's Memories of the War
49(16)
Derek Duncan
Bringing Home the Truth about the Revolution: Spanish Travellers to the Soviet Union in the 1930s
65(20)
Mayte Gomez
The Politics of the Everyday and the Eternity of Ruins: Two Women Photographers in Republican Spain
85(22)
Margaret Michaelis
Kati Horna
Jo Labanyi
Part 3: Liminal Spaces
Signs of Roman Rule: Italian Tourists and Travellers in Greece and Egypt
107(14)
Charles Burdett
Tradition and Modernism in Gustav Rene Hocke's Travel Books, 1937--39
121(10)
Helmut Peitsch
Dramatic Encounters: Federico Garcia Lorca's Trip to Cuba (1930)
131(12)
Sarah Wright
Gide in Egypt 1939
143(16)
Naomi Segal
Part 4: Colonial Encounters
Making the Case for Cross-Cultural Exchange: Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana
159(14)
Howard J. Booth
Investigating Indochina: Travel Journalism and France's Civilizing Mission
173(14)
Nicola Cooper
Aristocrats, Geographers, Reporters ... : Travelling through 'Italian Africa' in the 1930s
187(18)
Loredana Polezzi
Index 205

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