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dc.contributor.authorWaller, Rhian
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-30T14:34:51Z
dc.date.available2021-04-30T14:34:51Z
dc.identifierhttps://chesterrep.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10034/624485/03_Waller_04.03.21_SV.pdf?sequence=2
dc.identifier.citationWaller, R. (2020). Postcolonial pictures: Examining the Penguin edition book covers of Paul Theroux's travel writing through a visual social semiotic lens. Mobile Culture Studies: The Journal, 6, 41-60.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/624485
dc.description.abstractTravel literature, Paul Theroux writes, “moves from journalism to fiction, arriving […] at autobiography” (2008: 332). Perhaps because of this hybridity, travel writing is an enduring genre, and its texts are subject to fertile academic interpretation and re-interpretation. However, less attention has been given to the paratextual elements of the travel book. Book covers play a key role in establishing the nature and context of a written work. They operate as visual social semiotic forms, comprising textual and visual signifiers that stand “for an object or concept” (Moriarty, 2011: 228). The argument here is the resulting signs may encode meanings beyond the commercial purpose of the book cover. Semiotic analysis is therefore applied to the covers of Paul Theroux’s novel-length travel books. It is argued the Penguin book covers that feature on editions released over the last 40 years frequently include covert signifiers of unequal power relationships between western travellers and the peoples and cultures they encounter.en_US
dc.publisherKarl Franzens University Grazen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://unipub.uni-graz.at/mcsj/periodical/titleinfo/6012300en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
dc.subjectsemioticsen_US
dc.subjecttravel writingen_US
dc.subjectPaul Therouxen_US
dc.titlePostcolonial pictures examining the Penguin edition book covers of Paul Theroux's travel writing through a visual social semiotic lensen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn2413-9181en_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Chesteren_US
dc.identifier.journalMobile Culture Studies: The Journalen_US
or.grant.openaccessYesen_US
rioxxterms.funderunfundeden_US
rioxxterms.identifier.projectunfundeden_US
rioxxterms.versionAMen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2019
rioxxterms.publicationdate2020
dc.date.deposited2021-04-30en_US


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