Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

The study of travel literature, and literary representations of and philosophical inquiries into drugs and intoxication have grown increasingly prominent as independent fields of inquiry, but neither field has produced any sustained examination of the relationships between the two. In this volume, Banco examines interlocking representations of travel and drugs in the fiction of Burroughs, Huxley and others in order to assesses how and why metaphors of mobility help conceptualize the experience of intoxication as well as how and why drugs enable us to think about the pleasures and the pains of travel. He discovers that the juxtaposition of traveling and tripping - which he argues is often a process of 'spatializing intoxication' - raises important questions about identity, alterity, utopia, and capitalism.

ISBN 0415998611   Pages 198 ISBN13 9780415998611 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 406 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Hardback   Series title Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Publication date 15 Oct 2009   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2009019935   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 809.9332   Academic level Postgraduate, Undergraduate DEWEY edition DC22

1		"Causing frameworks to shift" : theorizing tripping		13
2		Starting selves : Aldous Huxley and William S. Burroughs		32
3		The permeable self and the horrors of consumption : Aldous Huxley's Island		57
4		What's he smoking? : cannabis and cigarettes in Alex Garland's The beach		76
5		"Man, this is the way to travel" : seeing Vegas anew in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and loathing in Las Vegas		101
6		Eating in Africa : becoming-animal in Robert Sedlack's The African safari papers		125
		Conclusion		154
		Notes		157
		Bibliography		171
		Index		181

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