Alasdair Pettinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1361833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alasdair Pettinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alasdair |
| FAMILY NAME | Pettinger |
| SIGNATURE | PETTINGER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
People watching
Whenever the forward movement of the narrative slows down – or stops completely – travel writing often realigns its representation of other people. Instead of a mobile protagonist who notes the existence of largely static and featureless by-standers with no history to speak of, the polarities are reversed, so that it is the travellees who are the ones who move, passing by – or revolving around – a traveller who stays put with apparently little ch…
The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing
This chapter seeks to expand an understanding of ‘expatriate’ by examining the defining choice to live elsewhere as one guided not only by aesthetic concerns but also by an ethical impulse to remake one’s life in accordance with a particular vision of ‘the good life’; in other words, expatriation as a deliberate act of displacement and a long-term process of self-transformation centred on the question, ‘How should I live?’ Susanna Moodie’s mid-ni…
Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing
Interview with Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton
Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton run Corbel Stone Press, which publishes music, art and writing informed by landscape and nature. They include works by themselves, produced both singly and collectively, often released under various subsidiary labels and imprints; and writings by others, principally through the journal Reliquiae, which they edit. Their pamphlets and books are often initially produced as beautiful hand-crafted limited editions…
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
Frederick Douglass (1818–95) was not the only fugitive from American slavery to visit Scotland before the Civil War, but he was the best known and his impact was far-reaching. In 1846 his stunning oratory drew enthusiastic crowds from Ayr to Aberdeen who came to hear him promote his new autobiography and deliver the abolitionist message. Although the main part of the book is framed by accounts of the racist discrimination Douglass faced on both h…
Frederick Douglass and Scotland 1846
The Voyage Home
Through a close reading of Douglass’s farewell speech in London, the newspaper coverage of the racist discrimination he faced once again from the Cunard shipping company, and his subsequent account of the episode, this chapter shows how Douglass returned to the United States, equipped with the skills and confidence to embark on a new phase of his career, breaking away with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison with a strong sense of his own, distinct…
The Voyage
Introduces Frederick Douglass in the context of his incident-packed voyage on the Cunard ship Cambria from Boston in August 1845 during which some racist passengers tried to prevent him from delivering a lecture at the invitation of the Captain. Summarising his early experiences, the chapter goes on to explain how Douglass escaped from slavery and, though a fugitive, became a leading antislavery campaigner in Massachusetts and why he and other bl…
African American travel narratives from abroad
"African American travel narratives from abroad: mobility and cultural work in the age of Jim Crow." Studies in Travel Writing, 19(4), pp. 392–393
In Search of African Diasporas
In Search of African Diasporas: Testimonies and Encounters, by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Durham, Carolina Academic Press, 2012, xviii + 574 pp., $65.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-6116-3056-5 This is a big
Tire trouble’
Cars were important to Zora Neale Hurston, whose extensive folklore-collecting trips in the US South in the 1920s and 1930s would have been impossible without them. The book in which she presented this research, Mules and Men (1935), has often been praised for the way that it describes her own practice as a college-educated anthropological fieldworker as well as recording the vernacular culture of African Americans in Florida, Alabama and Louisia…
“Eh! eh! Bomba, hen! hen!”
Duvalier's Ghosts
Extreme Pursuits
Extreme Pursuits: Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization, by Graham Huggan, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2009, 216pp, $65, ISBN: 9780472070725 (hb), $25.95, ISBN 9780472050727 (pb)
In search of America
African Americans on Africa
Caviar and Toast
Food often figures in travel writing as an index of cultural difference. Whether this produces a contrast between the dull and the exciting or the safe and the dangerous, the distinction between the ordinary and the exotic tends to overshadow all others. This paper examines Nigel Slater's Toast and Vanora Bennett's The Taste of Dreams, both published in 2003, which, I argue, stand out from most food-and-travel writing by offering Geertzian "thick…
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Short Reviews
Short Reviews
Talking Patriots
It is the same thing as waving the American flag in a poorly constructed play. (Hurston 1990a: 24
Talking Patriots
It is the same thing as waving the American flag in a poorly constructed play. (Hurston 1990a: 24
African Americans on Africa
Caviar and Toast
Food often figures in travel writing as an index of cultural difference. Whether this produces a contrast between the dull and the exciting or the safe and the dangerous, the distinction between the ordinary and the exotic tends to overshadow all others. This paper examines Nigel Slater's Toast and Vanora Bennett's The Taste of Dreams, both published in 2003, which, I argue, stand out from most food-and-travel writing by offering Geertzian "thick…
Talking Patriots
It is the same thing as waving the American flag in a poorly constructed play. (Hurston 1990a: 24
Short Reviews
Short Reviews
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Caviar and Toast
Food often figures in travel writing as an index of cultural difference. Whether this produces a contrast between the dull and the exciting or the safe and the dangerous, the distinction between the ordinary and the exotic tends to overshadow all others. This paper examines Nigel Slater's Toast and Vanora Bennett's The Taste of Dreams, both published in 2003, which, I argue, stand out from most food-and-travel writing by offering Geertzian "thick…
In search of America
African Americans on Africa
Extreme Pursuits
Extreme Pursuits: Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization, by Graham Huggan, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2009, 216pp, $65, ISBN: 9780472070725 (hb), $25.95, ISBN 9780472050727 (pb)
“Eh! eh! Bomba, hen! hen!”
Duvalier's Ghosts
In Search of African Diasporas
In Search of African Diasporas: Testimonies and Encounters, by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Durham, Carolina Academic Press, 2012, xviii + 574 pp., $65.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-6116-3056-5 This is a big
Tire trouble’
Cars were important to Zora Neale Hurston, whose extensive folklore-collecting trips in the US South in the 1920s and 1930s would have been impossible without them. The book in which she presented this research, Mules and Men (1935), has often been praised for the way that it describes her own practice as a college-educated anthropological fieldworker as well as recording the vernacular culture of African Americans in Florida, Alabama and Louisia…
African American travel narratives from abroad
"African American travel narratives from abroad: mobility and cultural work in the age of Jim Crow." Studies in Travel Writing, 19(4), pp. 392–393
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
Frederick Douglass (1818–95) was not the only fugitive from American slavery to visit Scotland before the Civil War, but he was the best known and his impact was far-reaching. In 1846 his stunning oratory drew enthusiastic crowds from Ayr to Aberdeen who came to hear him promote his new autobiography and deliver the abolitionist message. Although the main part of the book is framed by accounts of the racist discrimination Douglass faced on both h…
Frederick Douglass and Scotland 1846
The Voyage Home
Through a close reading of Douglass’s farewell speech in London, the newspaper coverage of the racist discrimination he faced once again from the Cunard shipping company, and his subsequent account of the episode, this chapter shows how Douglass returned to the United States, equipped with the skills and confidence to embark on a new phase of his career, breaking away with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison with a strong sense of his own, distinct…
The Voyage
Introduces Frederick Douglass in the context of his incident-packed voyage on the Cunard ship Cambria from Boston in August 1845 during which some racist passengers tried to prevent him from delivering a lecture at the invitation of the Captain. Summarising his early experiences, the chapter goes on to explain how Douglass escaped from slavery and, though a fugitive, became a leading antislavery campaigner in Massachusetts and why he and other bl…
The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing
This chapter seeks to expand an understanding of ‘expatriate’ by examining the defining choice to live elsewhere as one guided not only by aesthetic concerns but also by an ethical impulse to remake one’s life in accordance with a particular vision of ‘the good life’; in other words, expatriation as a deliberate act of displacement and a long-term process of self-transformation centred on the question, ‘How should I live?’ Susanna Moodie’s mid-ni…
Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing
Interview with Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton
Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton run Corbel Stone Press, which publishes music, art and writing informed by landscape and nature. They include works by themselves, produced both singly and collectively, often released under various subsidiary labels and imprints; and writings by others, principally through the journal Reliquiae, which they edit. Their pamphlets and books are often initially produced as beautiful hand-crafted limited editions…
People watching
Whenever the forward movement of the narrative slows down – or stops completely – travel writing often realigns its representation of other people. Instead of a mobile protagonist who notes the existence of largely static and featureless by-standers with no history to speak of, the polarities are reversed, so that it is the travellees who are the ones who move, passing by – or revolving around – a traveller who stays put with apparently little ch…
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