About the Author:
The Editors: Helen Gilbert teaches theatre, performance studies, and postcolonial literature at the University of Queensland. Her major publications include Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics (co-authored with Joanne Tompkins) and Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre.
Anna Johnston teaches Australian and postcolonial literature at the University of Tasmania. She has published a number of articles on missionary texts, postcolonial autobiography, and Australian literature.
Review:
«Travel is the first principle of colonial encounter. Discourses of travel continue to underwrite imperial relations in an unequal world. ‘In Transit’ seeks to understand the ubiquity of travel in the colonial record not by reaching for a general theory of the practice and its modes of representation, but by grounding specific travel activities to their technological and ideological conditions of possibility. This superb collection demonstrates that the processes of subject-formation under empire are radically contingent on mobility and its limits. It reveals that travel writing is a genre that knows no institutional boundaries, and it proves that a critical respect for historical specificity is the impassable ground zero of genuinely explanatory postcolonial critique.» (Stephen Slemon, Department of English, University of Alberta)
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.