Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations

With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.

JUSTIN D. EDWARDS is Professor of English at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of several books, including Postcolonial Literature, Understanding Jamaica Kincaid, Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic, Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature, Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature. He is also the co-editor of Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing.

RUNE GRAULUND is a Carlsberg Postdoctoral Fellow and teaches at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and the Department of English, Germanic and Romance studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has formerly published on travel writing, postcolonial theory and contemporary American fiction and is currently preparing his first monograph, Drifting Horizons - Travel Writing, Nature Writing and the Idea of the Desert for publication.