Document Type
Book Review
Department
Literature (CMC), Modern Languages (CMC)
Publication Date
Summer 2003
Abstract
In recent years, travel writing, once considered a minor genre, has been the subject of increased critical attention. Critics have focused on the ways in which travel narratives serve both to construct and to destabilize notions of identity at the individual, regional, and national levels. As the books under consideration here show, travel narratives produced by Caribbean and Latin American women writers in particular, demonstrate the malleability of subject positions, as the women travelers interrogate their shifting roles vis-à-vis the metropolis as well as male-dominated writing traditions.
Rights Information
© 2003 NWSA Journal. Posted with permission of copyright holder.
DOI
10.1353/nwsa.2003.0071
Recommended Citation
Review of Women in Argentina: Early Travel Narratives by Mónica Szurmuk, Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse ed. by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero-Cesareo, and In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women’s Writing by Isabel Hoving. NWSA Journal 15:2 (Summer 2003): 175-179.
