Travel Worlds(English, Paperback, unknown)

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Travel Worlds(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Zed Books Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1856495620 (ISBN 10) and 9781856495622 (ISBN 13).

African-American musicians head East for Kung-Fu kicks while paedophiles go for cheap sex pilgrimage; Western bible-bashers adopt missionary positions in India while heroic Saint George signs on as an Arab soldier in Britain; the scars of Partition mock the protocols of transit, while nomadic insurgents resist the Bangladeshi nation state with lyrical persuasion; Kula Shaker and Madonna trinketize the 'Orient' while dead tourists exchange values with travelling 'terrorists'; British Mirpuris and Black women travel back to the 'Old Country' and beyond in ways that are not quite as they seem; and ethnographers collide with tourists in the carousel of Goa's resorts.Including poetry and fiction alongside academic essays, this book refuses simplistic dichotomies of north/south and east/west and confronts head on existing conventions of writing about travel in post-colonial, literary and cultural studies. In so doing, it sheds new light on:* the shortcomings of border theories and nation-state parameters* the politics of diasporic and transnational travels* the relations between tourism and terrorism* the limitations of 'alternative' tourismTRAVEL WORLDS plots the politics of diverse journeys; it is 'something of a travel guide, something of a hold-all backpack, and something of another compass'.