"Decolonizing Travel Writing: Creative Scholarship in Asia"
Автор: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice UBC
Загружено: 2018-11-07
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Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Lecture Series at The University of British Columbia:
Dr. Christopher B. Patterson
Assistant Professor, Social Justice Institute, The University of British Columbia
October 17, 2019
This talk explores the migratory and exploratory routes that inform the author's two books published this year: the academic book “Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific,” and the fiction book “Stamped: an anti-travel novel.” Written over the same ten-year period, both books were formed through a set of wayward travel experiences within the cultural mosaics of Asian cities. How can travel experiences in Asia create disruptions in North America, a place complicit in but largely unaffected by the violences of colonization and empire in Asia? How does wayward, undirected and sporadic forms of travel emerge within a tourist industry that encourages travellers to parrot colonial attitudes while getting high on exotic local trappings? The author will also discuss what it means to do creative work within the institution, which can be both a resource for creativity and scholarship, as well as an entity seeking to exploit the author as a source—a thing from which reputation and diversity can be obtained.
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