Bibliograph

Airplane mode, an irreverent history of travel, Shahnaz Habib

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Airplane mode, an irreverent history of travel, Shahnaz Habib

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Airplane mode

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1391696702

Responsibility statement

Shahnaz Habib

Sub title

an irreverent history of travel

Summary

"The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this ... debut parses who gets to travel, and who gets to write about the experience. Threaded through the book are ... analyses of obvious and not-so-obvious travel artifacts: passports, carousels, bougainvilleas, guidebooks, trains, the idea of wanderlust itself. Together, they tell a subversive history of travel as a Euro-American mode of consumerism--but as any traveler knows, travel is more than that"--, Provided by publisher

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Irreverent history of travel

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