The Accidental Traveller: Priscila Uppal’s Search for Her Fugitive Brazilian Mother

Autor: Albert Braz
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Ilha do Desterro, Vol 0, Iss 67, Pp 103-114 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0101-4846
2175-8026
DOI: 10.5007/2175-8026.2014n67p103
Popis: Travel writing is often perceived as being inevitably informed by a colonial ethos, particularly since the authors of travelogues by necessity must discern differences between their homelands and the societies they describe. However, Priscila Uppal’s 2013 memoir Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother illustrates that accounts of journeys to other countries are not always primarily motivated by global politics but rather by family dynamics. After all, sometimes one sees a country in a given manner simply because it happens to be the birthplace of people one has come to resent, such as the mother who abandoned you as a child.
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