Friday 4 October 2013

Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Otherness for Travel Writers

READ pages 83-87 in Forgiving the Boundaries: Home As Abroad in American Travel Writing by Terry Caesar. This one’s to help you think about Subjectivity and Otherness in travel writing AS A TRAVEL AUTHOR whose subjectivity is undenialbly affected by your NATIONALITY. (btw my nationality is united arab emirates-Dubai) if you would like to include it :)
TYPE UP ONE SOLID PARAGRAPH ABOUT WHAT YOU READ HERE AND SOME OF QUESTIONS IT RAISES FOR YOU AS A TRAVEL WRITER (like: If your own NATIONALITY affects your subjectivity as a travel writer (and it absolutely, no question about it, DOES), what do you need to think about as a travel writer, given the fact of your own nationality-based subjectivity and the way you produce other-ness for readers whose own nationality-based subjectivity affects how they’ll think about the people and places you present to them? What are your ethical obligations? What are the opportunities this raises for you as a traveler? For you as a writer about travels?
Now, READ "Everybody Hates Mosquitoes" by William Michael Grella (a past student) and Singer Says Hey, Did You Notice (my little analysis written specifically to help you think about what you’ve just read and what you’re about to do). This one’s to help you think about Objectivity and Otherness in what you INCLUDE in a piece of travel writing.
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