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Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard (review)

Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard (review) 04-Reviews 8/23/05 9:19 AM Page 436 436 Biography 28.3 (Summer 2005) MORE EXOTIC MEMORIES OF US AND THEM David Scott. Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. ix + 235 pp. ISBN 0-521-83853-3, $75.00. Scott begins his account of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French travel literature by pointing out how “the quest for the new and the different is paradoxically accompanied by a nostalgia for an integrated semiotic system” (2). In support of his point that, after the nineteenth century, this nostalgia has become “an integral part of the appeal of the exotic,” he quotes from my Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle (Stanford UP, 1991), noting that part of the underlying project of exoticism is to recover a “‘concrete apprehension of others that is [ . . . ] typical of traditional com- munities but has been [ . . . ] eliminated from our own’” (2; Scott’s ellipses). While understandably pleased at the positive reference to my book, I was nonetheless puzzled by those two ellipses. Had I really made such an author- itative statement about “traditional communities” and their difference from “our own”? It turned out that my original claim http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biography University of Hawai'I Press

Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard (review)

Bongie, Chris.
Biography , Volume 28 (3) – Oct 4, 2005
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04-Reviews 8/23/05 9:19 AM Page 436 436 Biography 28.3 (Summer 2005) MORE EXOTIC MEMORIES OF US AND THEM David Scott. Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. ix + 235 pp. ISBN 0-521-83853-3, $75.00. Scott begins his account of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French travel literature by pointing out how “the quest for the new and the different is paradoxically accompanied by a nostalgia for an integrated semiotic system” (2). In support of his point that, after the nineteenth century, this nostalgia has become “an integral part of the appeal of the exotic,” he quotes from my Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle (Stanford UP, 1991), noting that part of the underlying project of exoticism is to recover a “‘concrete apprehension of others that is [ . . . ] typical of traditional com- munities but has been [ . . . ] eliminated from our own’” (2; Scott’s ellipses). While understandably pleased at the positive reference to my book, I was nonetheless puzzled by those two ellipses. Had I really made such an author- itative statement about “traditional communities” and their difference from “our own”? It turned out that my original claim

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