Susan Sontag and China: the professional traveler in an archaeology of conceptions
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Susan Sontag, Literature and travel, American literatureAbstract
This article aims to investigate travel as an experience in three texts by Susan Sontag: the short story “Project for a trip to China,” which is part of the collection I etcetera (1978), and the essays “Questions of Travel” (1984), which is part of the book Where the Stress Falls (2005), and “Trip to Hanoi”, part of the book Style of Radical Will (2005), in order to examine how the act of traveling and narrating constitute a literary theme, experience, and exercise of otherness. Part of the reflections on travel are based on Machado and Pageaux (1988) and Chevalier and Gheerbrant (2001). To this end, we also draw on brief notions of autofiction and authorship, with texts by Lejeune (2008), Arfuch (2010), and Bakhtin (2000). By establishing connections between the two texts, we seek to highlight the relevance of travel both as an aesthetic metaphor and as a critical category that runs through Sontag's work.
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