Nomadic texts : travel narratives and Interwar women's writing

Abstract

The years between the wars saw many changes in perceptions of geographical distance, reconfigurations of national boundaries, the destabilization of colonial empires, aesthetic experimentation, and new considerations of the nature of gender and subjectivity. Each issue arguably has an impact upon the composition of women's travel writings, and in an effort to extrapolate these themes, each chapter in this dissertation will address one of the topics of geography, nationalism, imperialism, genre and identity through the lens of a single woman author's texts.