In this year of 2019 the world is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and its literary legacy. Daniel Defoe’s work, which combines fact and fiction, not only marked the beginning of realistic fiction, but it also evidenced the intimate interrelationship between the novel and travel writing.
CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Universidade Nova, Lisbon) and CELIS (Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand) join the celebrations by organising this international conference which aims to be a locus of debate on the many facets of travel writing, a research area that has emerged as a relevant topic of study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the last few decades.
Papers on the following topics are welcome:
Anglophone travel writing on the Portuguese-speaking world
Lusophone travel writing on the Anglophone World
Travel writing and Robinson Crusoe’s legacy
Travelling to write
Travel writing and the novel
Travel writing as report
Travel and visual culture
Travel writing, Humanities and the Social Sciences
Travel writing, gender and power
Travel writing, (post)colonial discourse and decoloniality
Travel writing and (forced) migration
Travel writing, imagined communities and imagology
Travel writing and tourist culture
Travel writing and (in)tangible heritage
Travel writing and exploration
Travelling as gentrification
Travel writing, censorship and surveillance
Travel writing and (auto)biography
Travel writing and Otherness
Travel writing, politics and ideology
Travel writing and ethics
Travel writing, mobility and conviviality
Maps as travel narratives
Travel, Children’s Literature and Young Adult Fiction
Sound/Food/Smell/Touch/Visual/Ecoscapes in Travel Writing
Travel writing in/as translation
Utopian and dystopian travel narratives
Science and travel writing
History of Travel Writing
Travel writing: theory and criticism
Intertextuality in travel writing
The rhetorics of travel writing
Teaching Travel Writing
Keynote speakers:
Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University/Centre for Travel Writing Studies)
Teresa Pinto Coelho (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Catherine Morgan-Proux (Université Clermont Auvergne)
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