International Conference Announcement
1st Call for Papers
TOURISM & LITERATURE: TRAVEL, IMAGINATION & MYTH
22-26 July, 2004, Harrogate, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
This is the first Call for Papers for our 2004 annual
research conference on TOURISM & LITERATURE organised
by the CENTRE FOR TOURISM & CULTURAL CHANGE (Sheffield
Hallam University) and hosted by the HARROGATE
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL. The conference will run in
tandem with the Harrogate International Festival and
the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.
Literature, through both texts and authors, has long
been an inspiration for tourists. Travel and tourist
experiences have, in turn, long inspired literature.
This inter-relationship between tourist, tourism and
literature will be at the heart of this international
conference. How does literature construct tourist
histories and identities? How do tourists 'read'
fictional texts? How does literature produce,
prescribe and legitimate spaces for tourists? How are
tourist expectations and experiences mediated by
literature? What is the significance of imagined
worlds, fantastic landscapes and mythic characters for
tourism? Why do some authors hold a fascination for
tourists? Who are literary pilgrims and what
experiences do they have?
The conference seeks to explore and deepen our
understanding of tourism and literature relations by
bringing together an international audience of
academics, curators, writers, professionals and
tourism managers to discuss this increasingly
important field. The conference will be
multi-disciplinary drawing from literary criticism,
history, linguistics, sociology, anthropology,
cultural geography etc.
CALL FOR PAPERS
- Representing places, peoples and pasts in fictional
texts
- Tourists as readers and readers as tourists
- Sight-seeing - encounters with literately enchanted
worlds
- From the Bible to Lonely planet - literature as
travel liturgy
- Recreating the world - travel, cosmogony and myth
- Alternative literatures and tourist experiences
- Negotiating cultural identities through travel
narratives
- 'Intangible heritages' - narrative traditions,
storytelling and oral histories
- Production of literary spaces and the poetics of
literary landscapes
- Literary pilgrimages and the celebrity of authors
- The commodification and commercialisation of
literature
Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words
with full address details as an electronic file to Dr.
David Picard ([log in to unmask] ) as soon as possible
but by March 1st 2004 at the latest. Case studies,
evaluations and theoretical perspectives are all
acceptable.
Conference Convenors: Mike Robinson, David Picard,
William Culver-Dodds
Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street - Owen Building
Sheffield, SW1 1WB
United Kingdom
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