Narratives of Cyprus
Modern Travel Writing and Cultural Encounters since Lawrence Durrell
- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Unease has marked relations between modern travel writers and the people of Cyprus. Visitors like Lawrence Durrell, Colin Thubron, Christopher Hitchens and Sebastian Junger have registered the effects of political strife on both the people of the island and those who visit from abroad. Their accounts demonstrate how geopolitical realities--such as colonization, insurgency, inter-communal warfare, and now decades of militarized 'peace'--shape the narrating self and its relations to others. Here, Jim Bowman assesses the effects of Cypriot history on writings about the island through an analysis of memoirs, travelogues, political journalism, guide books and ethnographies. Through this examination of popular texts, Bowman shows how a western and politicized image of Cyprus has been created, increasingly divorced from the realities experienced by the local population. Narratives of Cyprus is an important reassessment of Cyprus' place in British culture, and will be of interest to scholars and students of Anthropology, English Literature and Ethnographic Studies.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Author Biography
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Cultural Stage for Stories of Conflict: Narrated Travel Writing and Modern Cyprus
- 2. Seductive, Disreputable yet Resilient: Modern Travel Writing and its Critics
- 3. Fashioned for Story’s Sake: Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons and the Lay of a Landscape Troped and Narrated for Posterity
- 4. Narrating from an Intimate Distance: Turk Troping in Colin Thubron’s Journey Into Cyprus
- 5. Day-tripping to the Dark Side: Navigating and Narrating an Island Divided
- 6. Toward an Ethics of Encounter for Travel and Travel Writing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
- Back Cover