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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 2007Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference