This volume is the first to introduce autobiogeography as a new interpretative framework for reading travel writing from the nineteenth century to the present day. It explores a wide range of French (and Francophone), English, and Polish texts, and examines, in different ways, the intricate relationships between the travellerâs autobiographical writing and geography â between self and space. Through this innovative perspective, the volume reveals the tensions and resonances that emerge between travellers and the spaces they inhabit, the transformations of the self in motion, the plurality of perspectives on a single place, and the forms of âautobiogeofictionâ in which the encounter with space transcends lived experience to become creation.
Sarga Moussa, research director at the CNRS (Paris), is director of the THALIM joint research unit (CNRS-USN-ENS). He specialises in travel writing and literary Orientalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. His publications include works on Lamartine, Nerval, Flaubert, Gautier and Bouvier.
Aimed at scholars, (postgraduate) students, and libraries interested in travel literature, autobiographical writing, and geocriticism within the broader framework of the spatial turn in the humanities.