With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.

The engaging and original essays in this volume challenge the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre

Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reading Postcolonial Travel Writing; J.D.Edwards  & R.Graulund Beyond Imperial Eyes; C.Lindsay Disturbing Naipaul's 'Universal Civilization': Islam, Travel Narratives and the Limits of Westernization; B.Roy Traveling Home: Global Travel and the Postcolonial in the Travel Writing of Pico Iyer; R.Graulund Travel Writing and Postcoloniality: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound ; M.L.L.Ropero Decolonizing Travel: James/Jan Morris's Geographies; R.Phillips 'Between somewhere and elsewhere': Sugar, Slate and Postcolonial Travel Writing; J.D.Edwards Where the Other Half Lives: Touring the Sites of Caribbean Spirit Possession in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place; A.Schroder Flora Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid's Travel Writing; Z.Pe?i? Post-Orientalism and the Past-Colonial in William Dalrymple's Travel Histories; P.Smethurst An Interview with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra; T.Khair Index