Justin D. Edwards is Research Professor in English at the University of Surrey and the author of Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930 (University of New Hampshire, 2001). Rune Graulund is Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde and co-editor (with Justin D. Edwards) of Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Travel Revisited1. Travelling with the Ondaatje Bros.2. Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips: Global Travel, Then and Now3. Unhomely Travels; or, the Haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald4. The World, My City: Home Grounds and Global Cities5. Travel Histories – From Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and Beyond Postscript: Still MobileBibliographyIndex

This study successfully counters the claim that travel writing is ‘doomed to repeat politically problematic images of colonization, racism and exoticism’ (p. 198). By the practice of ideological and textual decentring, Edwards and Graulund compellingly argue, innovative travel writing has the potential to expose new forms of Empire that are pervasive in contemporary globalization movements.

Justin D. Edwards is Research Professor in English at the University of Surrey and the author of Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930 (University of New Hampshire, 2001). Rune Graulund is Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde and co-editor (with Justin D. Edwards) of Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Travel Revisited1. Travelling with the Ondaatje Bros.2. Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips: Global Travel, Then and Now3. Unhomely Travels; or, the Haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald4. The World, My City: Home Grounds and Global Cities5. Travel Histories – From Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and Beyond Postscript: Still MobileBibliographyIndex

This study successfully counters the claim that travel writing is ‘doomed to repeat politically problematic images of colonization, racism and exoticism’ (p. 198). By the practice of ideological and textual decentring, Edwards and Graulund compellingly argue, innovative travel writing has the potential to expose new forms of Empire that are pervasive in contemporary globalization movements.

Justin D. Edwards is Research Professor in English at the University of Surrey and the author of Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930 (University of New Hampshire, 2001). Rune Graulund is Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde and co-editor (with Justin D. Edwards) of Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Travel Revisited1. Travelling with the Ondaatje Bros.2. Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips: Global Travel, Then and Now3. Unhomely Travels; or, the Haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald4. The World, My City: Home Grounds and Global Cities5. Travel Histories – From Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and Beyond Postscript: Still MobileBibliographyIndex

This study successfully counters the claim that travel writing is ‘doomed to repeat politically problematic images of colonization, racism and exoticism’ (p. 198). By the practice of ideological and textual decentring, Edwards and Graulund compellingly argue, innovative travel writing has the potential to expose new forms of Empire that are pervasive in contemporary globalization movements.