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Travel and the Exotic or Forbidden Other

Travel and Tourism / Panel / Session 3E03

Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Cassatt)

Through close readings of films and various types of literature, this panel explores the ways that travel impacts the Self/Other dyad.

Presentations

Sensory Tokyo: Alienation and Redemption in Globalised Japan.

Brahma Mihir Mohanty (University of Pennsylvania)
Travelers as Geographers in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Nathaniel R. Racine (Temple University)
Gendering of Travel in Cristina Garcia’s Monkey Hunting

Aisha Usman (Kinnaird College for Women Lahore)

Session chair

Jennifer Erica Sweda (University of Pennsylvania)