TY - JOUR
T1 - Interview with Rory MacLean
AU - Hannigan, Tim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Dorset on 2 October 2017, and updated by email in November 2020, Rory MacLean discusses his long travel writing career, from the publication of Stalin’s Nose in 1992, to Pravda Ha Ha in 2019. He explains how his background in the film industry informed his approach to travel writing, in the use of dialogue and character. He discusses his practice of using fictional devices in nonfiction books, and its potential for promoting empathy with travellees. He also considers the possibilities and challenges of narrating travel writing in the third person, as in his second book, The Oatmeal Ark (1997), and discusses the technical and ethical issues involved in creating composite characters. He also considers the contrast between his narrative books, with their fictionalised elements, and his recent collaborations on documentary projects with Nick Danziger.
AB - In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Dorset on 2 October 2017, and updated by email in November 2020, Rory MacLean discusses his long travel writing career, from the publication of Stalin’s Nose in 1992, to Pravda Ha Ha in 2019. He explains how his background in the film industry informed his approach to travel writing, in the use of dialogue and character. He discusses his practice of using fictional devices in nonfiction books, and its potential for promoting empathy with travellees. He also considers the possibilities and challenges of narrating travel writing in the third person, as in his second book, The Oatmeal Ark (1997), and discusses the technical and ethical issues involved in creating composite characters. He also considers the contrast between his narrative books, with their fictionalised elements, and his recent collaborations on documentary projects with Nick Danziger.
KW - Travel writing
KW - composite characters
KW - fictionalisation
KW - travellee
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098570920&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13645145.2020.1853931
DO - 10.1080/13645145.2020.1853931
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85098570920
SN - 1364-5145
VL - 24
SP - 183
EP - 193
JO - Studies in Travel Writing
JF - Studies in Travel Writing
IS - 2
ER -