Travellers' Tales

Most of us at various moments in our lives either adopt a `tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures. Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land. The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances and the ways in which records memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the `other'.