Travel and the Exotic or Forbidden Other | MAPACA

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.

Presenters

Brahma Mihir Mohanty

Travelers as Geographers in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Presenters

Nathaniel R. Racine

Gendering of Travel in Cristina Garcia’s Monkey Hunting

Presenters

Aisha Usman

Session chairs

Jennifer Erica Sweda