JAST 52: Winter 2020 - SPECIAL ISSUE: TRAVEL WRITING
Published in winter 2020, the 52nd issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey is a special edition focused entirely on travel writing. Annessa Ann Babic opens the edition with an editorial introduction exploring the transnational American gaze in travel literature. The main articles look at diasporic experiences, personal narratives, and historical travelogues. Nina Ha examines how Vietnamese diasporic culture expresses identity across literature and media. Elisabetta Marino analyzes Sophia Peabody Hawthorne’s perspective in Notes in England and Italy, while Tanfer Emin Tunc explores the allure of the exotic and erotic in Isabella Stewart Gardner’s travel writing. The issue wraps up with Christine Contrada reflecting on her seventeen years living as a Florentine and a piece by Lisa Tuttle detailing Genie and Robert's travels through Europe.
