Wandering with Wi-Fi: The Wandering Trend in Women’s Travel Blogs
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Article Title | Wandering with Wi-Fi: The Wandering Trend in Women’s Travel Blogs |
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ERA Journal ID | 35836 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Cantrell, Kate |
Journal Title | TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses |
Journal Citation | 23 (Special 56), pp. 1-15 |
Number of Pages | 15 |
Year | 2019 |
Publisher | Australasian Association of Writing Programs |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1327-9556 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.25404 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue56/Cantrell.pdf |
Abstract | Despite the continued popularity of travel blogs, there is a lack of contemporary criticism concerning the literal and figurative meanings of ‘wandering’ in the genre of online travel writing. One only has to trawl through the blogosphere to notice the number of female travellers who refer to themselves as ‘wandering’ women. However, female wandering has received little to no study in travel writing scholarship. In other words, what a ‘wandering woman’ is exactly – for example, why she wanders and how, as well as what constitutes an act of wandering – is yet to be widely theorised. Furthermore, the subversive tendency of female wandering to disrupt not only circular journeys but also stable conceptualisations of home has not been deeply explored. This paper argues that female wandering is a complex mode of travel that is characterised by the coupling of literal and figurative movement, and therefore it cannot be conceptualised through canonical understandings of departure and return. |
Keywords | travel blogs, travel writing, wandering, wandering women, women’s travel |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470101. Communication studies |
360201. Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) | |
470102. Communication technology and digital media studies | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q56yx/wandering-with-wi-fi-the-wandering-trend-in-women-s-travel-blogs
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