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Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing

Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing

Publié le par René Audet

Sidonie Smith, Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Womens Travel Writing, University of Minnesota Press, 2001, 224 p.

ISBN: 0-8166-2874-2



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In Moving Lives Sidonie Smith explores how womens travel and travel writing in the twentieth century were shaped by particular modes of mobility, asking how the form of travel affected the kind of narrative written.

Alexandra David-Neel journeying on foot across the Himalayas; Robyn Davidson on her camel in the outback of Australia; Amelia Earhart, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Beryl Markham climbing into the cockpit of their airplanes; Mary Morris riding a train from Beijing to Berlin; Irma Kurtz taking a Greyhound into the bellies of American cities and townsof these and other women, Smith asks: What do they make of their travels? How do they enact the dynamics of and contradictions in the drift of identity? Are they defined by the experienceor do they define the meaning of a particular mode of transport in new and different ways, and in doing so, disentangle travel from its masculine logic?

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