The Ethics of Travel: From Marco Polo to KafkaThis text has two main objectives: to explore how travel narrative works as a form of cross-cultural representation and to propose a critical method for its study; and to set out the ethical imperatives of travel as a mode of encounter with difference that leads to the performative enactment of becoming other. |
Contents
Othering and the other | 78 |
Marco Polo and his travels | 118 |
Exorbitant others and transgressive topoi | 138 |
The political technology of order | 167 |
Postscript | 209 |
118 | 218 |
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