Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America

我的研究项目将探讨来自拉丁美洲的当代旅行者如何在家里和家里写他们的旅程。它将探讨什么样的叙事形式和旅行的经验是从事在整个地区的旅行文本在世纪后期，在一个广泛的流离失所的时期。在过去的十五年里，无论是学者还是普通读者，对旅行写作都产生了前所未有的兴趣。因此，包括人类学、历史学、文学和文化研究在内的许多不同学科对旅行叙事的形式、功能和历史进行了彻底的重新评估。曾经被诬蔑为反动或庆祝其纪录片的质量，这种混合体裁的复杂性，其中包括民族志，历史和文学话语，现在开始曝光。欧洲的前殖民地一直是并将继续是一个磁铁的英语为母语的旅客过多，与他们的工作，在该领域的大部分现有的奖学金迄今已被关注。事实上，从赫尔南·科尔特斯（Hernán Cortés）到布鲁斯·查特温（Bruce Chatwin），历史上关于拉丁美洲的旅行作品主要是由外国旅行者（通常是欧洲旅行者）撰写的，特别是在殖民地和独立后的时代，它经常以主要的异国情调和/或帝国主义术语描绘这片大陆。我的研究项目对这一地区的体裁采取了新的方法。在过去的二十年里，拉丁美洲出现了一系列引人入胜的作品，它考虑了区域旅行作家如何谈判这种丰富但不稳定的形式，以对抗甚至证实他们的外国前辈所产生的神话。从人类学，文学研究，社会学和大陆哲学的思想，我将探讨从拉丁美洲当代旅游写作的复杂性，说明我的论点，通过一系列的案例研究有关四个关键的“旅游网站”有：巴塔哥尼亚，安第斯山脉，墨西哥和美墨边境。我的研究将说明这些当代旅行作家的作品不仅涉及“写回”中心：从根本上说，它也证明了旅行本身的概念正在发生变化。与那些历史悠久的征服，扩张或休闲地区的旅程相反，拉丁美洲的国内旅程坚持各种各样的过境模式，包括经济移民，政治流亡，以及关于非洲大陆旅行的“本体论”的哲学思考。因此，拉丁美洲的旅行写作挑战了正统的西方流动范式，并提出了关于流离失所、移徙和身份的重要问题，这些问题是当今地球仪迫切关注的问题。

My research project will explore how contemporary travellers from Latin America write their journeys at and about home. It will investigate what kinds of narrative forms and experiences of travel are engaged in journey texts from across the region in the late 20th century, during a period of widespread displacement. In the last fifteen years there has been unprecedented interest in travel writing from both scholars and general readers. As a result, there has been a radical reassessment of the form, function and history of the travel narrative in a number of different disciplines including anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies. Once maligned as reactionary or celebrated solely for its documentary qualities, the complexity of this hybrid genre, which encompasses ethnographic, historical and literary discourses, is now beginning to come to light. Europe's former colonies have been and continue to be a magnet for a plethora of Anglophone travellers, with whose work much of the existing scholarship in the field to date has been concerned. Indeed, historically travel writing about Latin America, from Hernán Cortés to Bruce Chatwin, has been written largely by foreign, often European travellers and, in the colonial and post-Independence eras particularly, it frequently depicted the continent in predominantly exoticist and/or imperialist terms. My research project takes a new approach to the genre in this region. Following the emergence in the last two decades of a fascinating body of work from Latin America, it considers how regional travel writers have negotiated this rich, but volatile form in order to counter or even corroborate myths generated by their foreign predecessors. Drawing on ideas from anthropology, literary studies, sociology and continental philosophy, I will explore the complexity of contemporary travel writing from Latin America, illustrating my argument through a series of case studies concerning four key 'sites of travel' there: Patagonia, the Andes, Mexico and the US-Mexico borderlands. My study will illustrate how these contemporary travel writers' work is not only concerned with 'writing back' to the centre: fundamentally, it also attests to changing conceptions of travel itself. In contrast to those time-honoured journeys to the region of conquest, expansion or leisure, domestic journeys in Latin America adhere to a diverse range of models of transit including economic migration, political exile, as well as philosophical speculation regarding the continent's very 'ontology' of travel. As such, travel writing in Latin America challenges orthodox, Western paradigms of mobility and raises important questions about displacement, migration and identity that are of urgent concern across the globe today.