The Function of Contemporary Travel Narratives in the French, Anglo, and Latin Americas: Mixing and Expanding Cultural Identity

This work focuses on the new type of travel narratives that began to appear in the second half of the 20th century, particularly in its novelistic form. Traditional American travel narratives have typically provided the background of their colonial and national identity formation. In this context, travel narratives appear as an occasion for encounters that put into question the personal as well as the geographical significance of locations and displacements of traditional Latino, Anglo and Franco American contexts. It opens up literary analyses on broader concerns about mixing and expanding cultural identity in the Americas today.