Here and Beyond

Narratives of Travel and Mobility in Contemporary Iberian Culture

• Author(s): Helena Buffery, Sergi Mainer, David Miranda-Barreiro, Martin Veiga,
• Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
• Pages: 302
• ISBN_10: 3643907435
  ISBN_13: 9783643907431
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Renaissance , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / Hispanic & Latino , Literary Criticism / European / French , Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies ,

Description:... The chapters included in this volume examine a number of modern and contemporary travel and mobility narratives produced in the different languages of Iberia, whether they offer accounts of Iberia itself or portray other geographical or human contexts. Illustrating the diversity of forms characteristic of travel writing, the texts discussed in the book feature representations of travel and mobility as presented in novels, films and other literary and cultural manifestations such as comics, plays and journalistic chronicles. Additionally, the volume incorporates a section of creative responses to the tropes of travel and mobility by contemporary Iberian authors in English translation. Thus, the book provides critical accounts of and creative insights into a tradition that has produced canonical texts, but also unorthodox, complex and challenging narratives, particularly in more recent times.