Women Travel Writing and Truth

<p>The issue of truth has been one of the most constant complex and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration pilgrimage science inspiration self-discovery or a combination of these elements questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise.</p><p><em>Women Travel and Truth </em>is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in date from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the eighteenth century to Jamaica Kincaid in the twenty-first across such regions as India Italy Norway Siberia Austria the Orient the Caribbean China and Mexico. Topics explored include blurred distinctions of fiction and non-fiction; travel writing and politics; subjectivity; displacement and exile. Students and academics with interests in literary studies history geography history of art and modern languages will find this book an important reference.</p>