Mexican Travel Writing

The Author: Thea Pitman was awarded her Ph.D. from University College London in 1999 for a thesis on the tradition of Mexican travel writing, out of which this volume has gradually evolved. She has also published a number of articles on the subject. Current research projects include the study of Latin American cyberliterature and cyberculture, as well as issues of comparative postcolonial experiences, with a particular focus on the relations between Africa and the Americas. She teaches Latin American Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds.

• Contents: Foreign travel accounts of Mexico – The ‘travel chronicle’ genre, costumbrismo/paisajismo, Mikhail Bakhtin’s ‘chronotope of the road’ model – Imperialist tendencies in travel writing – The nineteenth-century tradition of Mexican travel writing – Postmodernism, postcolonialism and contemporary Mexican travel writing: the ‘chronotope of the net’ model – Virtual and archival travel writing – Juan Villoro, Palmeras de la brisa rápida: un viaje a Yucatán (1989) – Héctor Perea, México: crónica en espiral (1996) – Fernando Solana Olivares, Oaxaca: crónicas sonámbulas (1994).