Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America

<p>This book considers how contemporary travelers from Latin America write their journeys at and about home. How do Latin American writers of the late twentieth-century negotiate the hybrid and volatile category of travel writing which has been shaped in large part by myriad Euro-American travelers? How do they engage with the enduring myths about the region perpetuated by their imperial/ist predecessors? And if not journeys of expansion or exploration on precisely what kinds of 'travel' do their own journeys rest? Drawing on ideas from many disciplines including anthropology philosophy sociology literary and cultural studies this book considers contemporary journey narratives from Latin America through a series of case studies concerning four key sites of travel each of which engenders particular forms of travel and travel narrative: Patagonia the Andes Mexico and the Mexico-US border. This book thus explores the complex practice and representation of journeys in the region by writers including Luis Sepúlveda Mempo Giardinelli Andrés Ruggeri Ana García Bergua Silvia Molina María Luisa Puga Rubén Martínez and Luis Alberto Urrea. In doing so it explores questions relating to mobility representation and globalization that are of widespread concern across the world today.</p>