The Lives and Strange Surprising Adventures of Classic and Contemporary Travellers in Fiction in English

Elisabeth Bekers

Abstract

"I thought we were already overstocked with books of travels," Gulliver replies when asked to write down his extraordinary experiences as a traveller in Swift's 1726 fictional travel journal. From the birth of the novel three centuries ago, with the publication of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe, travellers and migrants have featured prominently in fiction in English. This paper examines, from a postcolonial perspective, the literary treatment of the figure of the traveller throughout the history of literatures in English up to literary explorations of the asylum seeker at the dawn of the 21st century.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unknown
Publisher	Anglistentag – University of Tübingen, 5-8 October 2008
Publication status	Published - 7 Oct 2008
Event	Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 21 Sep 2009 → 25 Sep 2009

Conference

Conference	Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet
Country	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	21/09/09 → 25/09/09

Keywords

Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Postcolonial Rewritings
Caryl Phillips
A Distant Shore
Abdulrazak Gurnah
By the Sea

1 Finished

OZR1560: Refugee Aesthetics in African Diaspora Fiction
Bekers, E.
1/01/08 → 31/12/11
Project: Fundamental

1 Participation in conference

Conference Panel on “The Art of Wor(l)d Markets: Development, Diaspora, and Narratives of Africa in Europe” at the 2nd AEGIS conference on “African Alternatives: Initiative and Creativity beyond Current Constraints”
Elisabeth Bekers (Organiser)
11 Jul 2007 → 14 Jul 2007
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference

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The Lives and Strange Surprising Adventures of Classic and Contemporary Travellers in Fiction in English

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OZR1560: Refugee Aesthetics in African Diaspora Fiction

Activities

Conference Panel on “The Art of Wor(l)d Markets: Development, Diaspora, and Narratives of Africa in Europe” at the 2nd AEGIS conference on “African Alternatives: Initiative and Creativity beyond Current Constraints”

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