TY - JOUR
T1 - Interview with Patrick Barkham
AU - Hannigan, Tim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Norwich on 10 March 2017, Patrick Barkham discusses his work and the relationship between the so-called “new nature writing” and the wider travel writing genre. Reflecting on his own changing approaches across his four books, he talks of his anxieties about representing people in the “peripheral” places he visits as a travel writer, and considers the parallels with colonial travel writing identifiable in some British nature writing. Discussing his most recent book, Islander, Barkham describes his approach to the ethics of representation, seeking dialogue with the people he represents and feedback ahead of publication, and talks about the problematic asymmetries of power that impact on travel writing about peripheral parts of Britain, as they do on travel writing about “foreign” places.
AB - In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Norwich on 10 March 2017, Patrick Barkham discusses his work and the relationship between the so-called “new nature writing” and the wider travel writing genre. Reflecting on his own changing approaches across his four books, he talks of his anxieties about representing people in the “peripheral” places he visits as a travel writer, and considers the parallels with colonial travel writing identifiable in some British nature writing. Discussing his most recent book, Islander, Barkham describes his approach to the ethics of representation, seeking dialogue with the people he represents and feedback ahead of publication, and talks about the problematic asymmetries of power that impact on travel writing about peripheral parts of Britain, as they do on travel writing about “foreign” places.
KW - Hebrides
KW - Patrick Barkham
KW - new nature writing
KW - representation
KW - travel writing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045147468&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13645145.2017.1412092
DO - 10.1080/13645145.2017.1412092
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85045147468
SN - 1364-5145
VL - 21
SP - 429
EP - 440
JO - Studies in Travel Writing
JF - Studies in Travel Writing
IS - 4
ER -