Travel and Utopia

Ashcroft, Bill

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“…Ashcroft (2015:249) writes that as all travellings are started with hopes; thus, the motif of travelling is actually utopia. [5] Travel is motivated by the yearning for exploring the new things, the desire to dicover the place where one can put himself in comfort. Bloch in Ashcroft mentions that motivation to travel is the ultimate accomplishment in utopia, as travel is "continuing oriented to the presence of the Not-Yet"(250).…”

Section: Canada As Utopia and Homementioning

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“…Bloch in Ashcroft mentions that motivation to travel is the ultimate accomplishment in utopia, as travel is "continuing oriented to the presence of the Not-Yet"(250). [5] It is stated that "what we know will only be realized in the process of becoming what we are...(250). [5] Furthermore he mentions that "the very core of utopia is the dynamic of travel because the discovery of what we do not yet know is the discovery of further dimensions of being" (250).…”

Section: Canada As Utopia and Homementioning

confidence: 99%

“…[5] It is stated that "what we know will only be realized in the process of becoming what we are...(250). [5] Furthermore he mentions that "the very core of utopia is the dynamic of travel because the discovery of what we do not yet know is the discovery of further dimensions of being" (250). [5] Alif's motivation to go abroad is based on his desire to explore the world freely and to show that despite limitation he has, he is able to win in fierce competition.…”

Section: Canada As Utopia and Homementioning

confidence: 99%

“…[5] Furthermore he mentions that "the very core of utopia is the dynamic of travel because the discovery of what we do not yet know is the discovery of further dimensions of being" (250). [5] Alif's motivation to go abroad is based on his desire to explore the world freely and to show that despite limitation he has, he is able to win in fierce competition. In Canada, even though he has already prepared and equipped himself with sufficient knowledge, Alif feels amazed with the orderliness of the infrastructures and community's life.…”

Section: Canada As Utopia and Homementioning

confidence: 99%

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Negotiation in A. Fuadi’s Ranah Tiga Warna (The Land of the Three Colors)

Wulandari

2018

CULTURALISTICS

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Travel writing is one of the literary genres that has received attention today. This paper discusses the work of A. Fuadi’s Ranah Tiga Warna (The Land of the Three Colors) telling the main character’s experience in three lands: Bandung (Indonesia), Amman (Jordan), and Saint Raymont (Canada). This paper is to analyze the negotiation process between ‘the self’ and ‘the other’ experienced by the main character in the third land: Saint Raymont. This uses the concept of negotiation of ‘the self’ and ‘the other’ by Thompson, and Deleutze’s and Guattari’s segmentarity. The results show that the main character can play a flexible interplay between ‘the self’ and ‘the other’, negotiation and accommodation, and even transduction. The successful negotiation process can be seen from the difference and how the main character has willingness to bring the difference to his home country. The main character’s mention of ‘return home’ when revisiting Saint Raymond years later becomes the evidence of the successful negotiation as well.Keywords: travel writing, negotiation, the self, the other

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Section: Canada As Utopia and Homementioning

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2018

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Advancements in technology and digital media in tourism

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Scarles

2021

Tourist Studies

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This article discusses the concomitant processes of increasing familiarisation, responsiveness and responsibility that digital technology enables in the realm of tourism. We reflect on the influence of the proliferation of interactive digital platforms and solutions within tourism practice and behaviour through a range of lenses, from user generated content and associated interactive digital platforms, the emergence of gamification embedded within these, immersive mixed-reality media (such as virtual reality [VR] and augmented reality [AR]) and the changes in tourist behaviour that have paralleled these digital developments. We also explore the use of AI in tourism, and the methodological potential that digital technology has for tourism studies.

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Mobility Trope: Travelling as a Signature of the Afropolitan Female Quest for Existential Subjectivity in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street

Anasiudu

2020

Journal of Gender and Power

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The mobility trope is a key aesthetic feature in Afropolitan fiction and it crystalizes as the act of travelling which has become an important subject-matter in postnationalist African fictions by women such as Chimamanda Adichie, Noviolet Bulawayo or Chika Unigwe as a way of intervention on the debate of the Afropolitan female quest for existential subjectivity in 21st century African fiction. This is against the backdrop of negative essentialism and the exertions of patriarchy evident in the representation of African women’s in 20th century African fiction. Drawing from the foregoing, this paper interrogates Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (Hence OBSS) to demonstrate how the writer deploys mobility trope which manifest as travelling as a signature of the Afropolitan female quest for existential subjectivity. I argue in this paper that, though existing studies on OBSS portray Efe, Sisi, Ama and Joyce as exported commodities in neoliberal sex market, their relocation however opens up a new vista to understanding their motivation and quest for new subjectivity, empowered fluid agency, individual autonomy and translation into Afropolitans. This is within Achille Mbembe’s phenomenological criticism of Afropolitanism and a methology that is based on qualitative content analysis of the text—OBSS. On the long run, the identity which travelling confers on the female characters is fluid, as they represent an African being in a globalized world and a strong sense of cultural mobility.

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Travel and Utopia

Cited by 4 publications

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Negotiation in A. Fuadi’s Ranah Tiga Warna (The Land of the Three Colors)

Negotiation in A. Fuadi’s Ranah Tiga Warna (The Land of the Three Colors)

Advancements in technology and digital media in tourism

Mobility Trope: Travelling as a Signature of the Afropolitan Female Quest for Existential Subjectivity in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street

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