Travel Writing and the Transnational Author

1. Introduction: Travel Writing and Transnationalism
Sam Knowles

Part I. Travelling Out

2. Michael Ondaatje: The ‘Prodigal-Foreigner’, Reconstruction, and Transnational Boundaries
Sam Knowles

3. Vikram Seth: The Performing Wanderer and Transnational Disintegration
Sam Knowles

Part II. Travelling On

4. Amitav Ghosh: Uncertain Translation and Transnational Confusion
Sam Knowles

5. Salman Rushdie: Political Dualities and Imperial Transnationalisms
Sam Knowles

6. Conclusion: Transnational Literature on the Move
Sam Knowles

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Asian Literature