Defining Travel

An anthology of diverse narratives that theorize on the reasons people travel with essays by Gloria Anzaldía Jean Baudrillard William Bevis Homi Bhabha Michel Butor Hélène Cixous Erik Cohen Michel de Certeau Wayne Franklin Paul Fussell Farah Jasmine Griffin Caren Kaplan Eric Leed Dean MacCannell Doreen Massey Carl Pedersen Gustavo Pérez-Firmat Mary Louise Pratt R. Radhakrishnan Edward W. Said and Thayer Scudder<p><p>Travel movement mobility--these are some of the essential activities in human life. Whether we travel to foreign lands or just across the city we all journey and from our journeying we shape ourselves our history and the stories we tell.<p>In essays written by some of the most respected contemporary scholars this anthology brings together some of the best informed convictions about travel. Travel so essential to human life is a complex matter that encompasses a variety of travel experiences--family vacation political exile exploration of dist