[Commlist] New Book: "Beyond the Genre: Approaching Travel (and) Writing through Interviews with Authors and Bloggers"

NEW BOOK: "BEYOND THE GENRE: Approaching Travel (and) Writing through 
Interviews with Authors and Bloggers" by Dr Stefano Calzati (Politecnico 
of Milan). The book is published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing

"What is the cultural value of travel writing today? How is the genre 
affected by instant communication and digital technologies? This volume 
provides answers to these questions through adopting a transmedial 
perspective by comparing printed travel books and travel blogs. Notably, 
it explores how different editorial and medial choices impact on the 
cultural practices of travelling and writing.

Methodologically, an ethnography is proposed via the discussion of a 
number of original interviews (collected over three years) with 
contemporary travel authors and bloggers, who journeyed around (and 
wrote about) China. These writers are from both the West (the UK, the 
USA, Italy, France, New Zealand) and China (Hong Kong and the Mainland). 
As such, the volume not only deconstructs the English-centredness and 
ethnocentrism that often affect travel writing as a genre, as well as 
many studies on it, but it also renews the academic debate on the 
politics behind the genre, connecting the texts with their spheres of 
production and reception. The study shows the interdependence between 
medial and literary features, on the one hand, and the ways of 
journeying and writing about the experience, which largely depend upon 
the biography of each writer, on the other."

The book can be of interest to scholars in travel writing, China, 
comparative literatures, cultural and media studies, as well as to a 
wider non-specialistic audience, especially considering the ethnographic 
approach of the book.

Dr Stefano Calzati is a writer and a Teaching Fellow in Media Studies 
and Digital Cultures at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Previously, he 
worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the City University of Hong Kong, 
where he taught and researched on new media literacies. He has also 
taught core courses in cultural studies at the University of Leeds, UK, 
where he obtained his PhD in 2016. His articles have appeared in various 
international peer-reviewed journals, such as the /Chinese Journal of 
Communication/, the /Journal of Postcolonial Writing/, /Biography/and 
/Parallax/. He has also worked as an editor and reporter for publishing 
houses, the press, and the radio in France, Belgium, Australia and the USA.
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