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The Modernist Traveler, The Modernist Traveler, 0803224125, 0-8032-2412-5, 978-0-8032-2412-4, 9780803224124, Kimberley J. Healey, , The Modernist Traveler, 0803203411, 0-8032-0341-1, 978-0-8032-0341-9, 9780803203419, Kimberley J. Healey
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The Modernist Traveler
hardcover
2004.
175 pp.
Index
978-0-8032-2412-4
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 The Modernist Traveler considers figures whose writing about travel rebelled against a literary tradition of exoticism, adventure stories, and novelistic travelogues. Instead these writers initiated a modernist strain in travel writing and a shift in the literary establishment and the culture at large. Kimberley J. Healey focuses on those French writers and thinkers who traveled in order to experience a displacement of both the inner self and the physical body while writing against the prevalent tradition of travel literature. The modern self, modern time, colonial spaces, and the physical body are Healey’s concerns as she reads works by Victor Segalen, Paul Morand, Blaise Cendrars, Henri Michaux, Saint-John Perse, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Nizan, Albert Londres, Andre Malraux, Valéry Larbaud, and Isabelle Eberhardt. This book shows how, in the field of French literature, these texts about travel best capture the modernist experience of being alone in a world of new technologies, cultural diversity, and anxiety about the self.
 Kimberley J. Healey is an assistant professor of French at the University of Rochester.
 “There is much to be commended in this compact, jargon-free exploration of mostly non-canonical texts that should reward generalist and specialist alike (and travelers in particular!). The Modernist Traveler provides key insights explaining why early twentieth-century France’s literary relationship to the foreign other was at root a narcissistic one, and perhaps also why we would do well to leave modernism’s “stylistic fascinations” behind us for a politically progressive transcultural poetics of Diversity like that of Edouard Glissant.”—Derek Schilling, French Review “Healey’s book is truly compelling and important. It is a significant contribution to the field, focusing on authors on whom not enough work has been done and bringing attention to works that have been understudied but that are fascinating and of considerable interest in terms of literature, culture, and civilization.”—Peter Schulman, author of The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric
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