Deconstructing Travel: Cultural Perspectives on Tourism / Edition 1

by Arthur Asa Berger

Overview

As a visible marker of globalization, the increased role of travel and tourism in our lives makes it a remarkable force in contemporary culture. Deconstructing Travel provides an easily understood framework of the relationship between travel and culture in our rapidly changing postmodern, postcolonial world. Beginning with an examination of classical expeditions in mythology, history, and literatures, Arthur Asa Berger explores the role of travel in contemporary lives, from university travel-abroad programs to package tours and family vacations. This volume is a highly-engaging look into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a cultural phenomenon through social, cultural, psychological, and economic forces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759107243
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	07/29/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Arthur Asa Berger, retired professor from San Francisco State University, is the author of over 40 books, including the mystery novel/textbook Postmortem for a Postmodernist and The Kabblah Killings and editor of The Postmodern Presence: Readings on Postmodernism in American Culture and Society.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Chapter One: Travelers and Tourists
Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Aspects of Travel and Tourism
Chapter 4 Chapter Three: The Uses of Travel and Tourism
Chapter 5 Chapter Four: The Tourism Industry
Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Travel Advertising: Images and Language
Chapter 7 Chapter Six: Travel Writing as an Art Form
Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: The Impact of Tourism
Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: Disneyland and Walt Disney World
Chapter 10 Chapter Nine: The End of the Road
Chapter 11 Bibliography
Chapter 12 Index
Chapter 13 About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Berger approaches his subject not as a scientist, peering through the microscope to produce a precise dissection but as an artist, and then not a miniaturist but as a presenter of landscapes brought to our attention by a collection of bold brush strokes borrowed for present purposes from any number of schools and pressed into service to create a wonderfully evocative and interesting pastiche. . . Berger is at his best when discussing travel writing.--Tourist Studies

From the Publisher

Berger approaches his subject not as a scientist, peering through the microscope to produce a precise dissection but as an artist, and then not a miniaturist but as a presenter of landscapes brought to our attention by a collection of bold brush strokes borrowed for present purposes from any number of schools and pressed into service to create a wonderfully evocative and interesting pastiche.. . Berger is at his best when discussing travel writing.

Tourist Studies