Writing Travel/Travelling Writing
Roland Barthes Detours the Orient
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanne P Sharp (University of Glasgow), Joanne Sharp (0000-0001-5805-4296, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-166 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d220t |
| OpenAlex | W2104029145 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper offers a contribution to the recent emergence in geography of studies of travel writers and the production of other representations of the non-Western world. I consider a rather different text to those normally studied in that the book, Empire of Signs by Barthes, purports not to represent any real place. A number of writers, influenced by Said's pathbreaking work Orientalism, have considered whether Barthes perpetuates Orientalist images. Rather than structure my argument around the binary of Orientalist/not-Orientalist I will consider the ways that Barthes subverts the structure of Orientalism from within. Barthes counterfeits travel: playing with the concept of 'wonder' which halted the representational language of more conventional travellers. Through the construction of his own 'hyper-Orientalist' account, Barthes produces a poststructural ethics which I argue offers some important reflections on the politics of representation both of travel writing and of academic critiques of it
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |