Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism

It explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. These re-enactments are quests for aura meant to capture a sense of historical profundity. However, they are also precarious and contingent, and force travellers to navigate historical change in densely performative ways.

Lucas Tromly is an associate professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. He has published in the fields of modernism, comics studies, and Asian North American literature.