We Don’t Know What We Want”: The Ups and Downs of Global Travel in Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002)-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

We Don’t Know What We Want”: The Ups and Downs of Global Travel in Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002)

Published:2023-10 Issue:32/1 Volume: Page:35-51
ISSN:0860-5734
Container-title:Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
language:en
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Author:

Rutkowska Małgorzata¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin

Abstract

Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) can be read as a (post) modern voice in the ongoing debate on educational, transformative and redemptive po- tential of foreign travel for the young Americans in the late 1990s. The article focuses on representation of global travel experience in the novel employing American Old World journey conventions on the one hand and tourism-travel dichotomy on the other. The backpackers in Eggers’s novel can be characterized as drifters. Their encounters with otherness most often result in confusion. All in all, the novel downplays the role of travel in the globalized, homogenized world at the turn of the 21st century.

Publisher

University of Warsaw

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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