 | Paralyses Subjects: Travel; Imperialism in literature.; Ethnology in literature.; Travelers in literature.; Travelers'' writings French; French literature; Travel in literature.; Modernity has long been equated with motion, travel, and change, from MarxOCOs critical diagnoses of economic instability to the FuturistsOCO glorification of speed. Likewise, metaphors of travel serve widely in discussions of empire, cultural contact, translation, and globalization, from DeleuzeOCOs OC nomadologyOCO to James CliffordOCOs OC traveling cultures.OCO John Culbert, in contrast, argues that the key texts of modernity and postmodernity may be approached through figures and narratives of paralysis: motionais no more defining of modern travel than fixations, resistance, and impasse; concepts and figures of travel, he posits, must be rethought in this more static light. |
