Travel and Tourism: Syllabus
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Andre Aciman, ed., Letters of Transit, N.Y.: The New Press, 1999
Chloe Chard, Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography1600-1830, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999
James Clifford, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997
E. Val Daniel and John Chr Knudsen, eds., Mistrusting Refugees, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995
Johannes Fabian, Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000
Lenora Foerstel ed., Creating Surplus Populations: The Effect of Military and Corporate Policies on Indigenous Peoples, Washington, D.C.: Masionneuve Press, 1996
Chris Gosden and Chantal Knowles, Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change, Oxford and New York: Berg Press, 2001
Inderpal Grewal, Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel, Durham: Duke University Press, 1996
Peter Hulme and Tim Young, eds., Companion to Travel The Cambridge Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, Durham: Duke University Press, 1996
Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, London: Routledge, 1992
David Rain, Eaters of the Dry Season: Circular Labor Migration in the West African Sahel , Boulder : Westview Press, 1999
Course Organization and Readings
Introduction and Organization of Seminar
Week 1
Friday, September 9
No Assigned Readings
Surveying the Field
Week 2
Friday, September 16
“Defining Travel: An Introduction” in Susan L Roberson, ed., Defining Travel: Diverse Visions, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001: pages xi-xxvi
Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, Durham: Duke University Press, 1996: pages 1-26
Peter Hulme and Tim Young, eds., Companion to Travel The Cambridge Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002: pages 1-101
The Space Between the Sacred and the Secular: Travel as Pilgrimage
Week 3
Friday, September 23
William Swatos Jr. and Luigi Tomes, From Medieval Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism, Westport: Praeger Press, 2002: pages 1-74 (xerox)
Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori, eds., Muslim Travelers: Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990: pages 3-65; 85-107; 217-255
Week 4
Friday, September 30
Peter Hulme and Tim Young, eds., Companion to Travel The Cambridge Writing, Op. Cit., pages 105-121
Chloe Chard, Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography1600-1830, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999
Colonial Encounters and (Re)Visions
Week 5
Friday, October 7
Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, London: Routledge, 1992
Week 6
Friday, October 14
Johannes Fabian, Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000
Week 7
Friday, October 20
Chris Gosden and Chantal Knowles, Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change, Oxford and New York: Berg Press, 2001
Week 8
Friday, October 26
Inderpal Grewal, Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel, Durham: Duke University Press, 1996
On Home and Displacement
Week 9
Friday, November 4
James Clifford, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997: pages 17-46; 244-347 (also read relevant notes at the end of the book).
Andre Aciman, ed., Letters of Transit, N.Y.: The New Press, 1999: pages 9-14; 39-114
Week 10
Friday, November 11
Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, Op. Cit., pages 27-187
Week 11
Friday, November 18
David Rain, Eaters of the Dry Season: Circular Labor Migration in the West African Sahel, Boulder: Westview Press, 1999
Week 12
Friday, November 25
Thanksgiving break: No Class
Week 13
Friday, December 2
Lenora Foerstel ed., Creating Surplus Populations: The Effect of Military and Corporate Policies on Indigenous Peoples, Washington, D.C.: Masionneuve Press, 1996
Week 14
Friday, December 9
E. Val Daniel and John Chr Knudsen, eds., Mistrusting Refugees, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, selected pages
Conference Presentations
Week 15
Friday, December 16
No assigned reading: Presentation of Conference Papers