CROSS-CULTURAL TRAVEL

Cross- Cultural Travel
Tania Manca

À travers l’ouvrage Cross-Cultural Travel Jane Conroy a considérablement enrichi le panorama des ouvrages collectifs hodéporiques. L’ouvrage réunit en effet cinquante articles qui traitent de façon spécifique différents thèmes de la littérature de voyage. Parmi les auteurs figurent des critiques du genre très connus dans le monde anglophone, francophone italophone et germanophone, tels que Luigi Monga, Joep Leerssen, et bien d’autres. La différente origine des auteurs, ainsi que certains des principes clés de la rédaction de l’ouvrage, comme celui de laisser les citations données dans les articles dans les langues d’origine (avec une traduction en anglais en note), confèrent à ce grand ouvrage un caractère multiculturel et multilinguistique.

Cross-Cultural Travel, Jane Conroy éd., Peter Lang, New York, 2003

 

Quatrième de couverture

Cross-Cultural Travel presents the proceedings of a major international conference on literature and travel held in November 2002 at the National University of Ireland, Galway, under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy.

The contributors, including such leading scholars as Joep Leerssen and Luigi Monga, illustrate the remarkable scope and vitality of work currently undertaken in the field. Cross-Cultural Travel is a multidisciplinary crossroads where literature, cultural studies, and history engage with a variety of other disciplines. Topics range from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century and from constructions in fiction and poetry to the testimonies of explorers, diplomats, servants of Empire, philosophers, journalists, artists, tourists, or established writers. Among the authors featured are Rousseau, Heine, Sand, Hugo, Svevo, Cela, Ingeborg Bachmann, Barthes, Tabucchi, Chatwin, Allende, and Sebald. Taken together, these fifty essays illuminate the processes of identity formation, whether the great lines of national identity or the personal edges of awareness. They explore over time differing relationships to the physical world, experiences of cultural difference, and the interplay between the subject’s mobility and its textualization.

L’auteur

Jane Conroy lectures in French at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She received her doctorate in French literature from the Université de Paris IV Sorbonne, in 1994, and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is the author of Terres tragiques (1999), a study of seventeenth-century French dramatizations of English and Scottish history. Her recent publications have been on questions of alterity and identity and French travelers in Ireland. Her current research addresses the part played by travel in shaping French awareness of other European nations.

Tania Manca