%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°Collateral Damage in the War on Travel Writing¡±: Recovering Reader Responses to Contemporary Travel Writing
%A Hannigan
%A Tim
%J -
%D 2020
%R 10.15291/SIC/2.10.LC.9
%X Sa£¿etak Scholarship of travel writing has seldom paid proper attention to questions of how and why readers engage with the genre ¨C an oversight which, as Robin Jarvis (2016) has noted, at times leads to negative generalizations about travel writing¡¯s presumed audience. This article examines this issue, and considers ways of recovering actual reader responses ¨C through surveys of online reviews, and qualitative interviews. The article outlines findings from a structured group discussion with six regular readers of travel writing. Particular attention is paid to the way these readers respond to the possible inclusion of fictional elements in notionally non-fictional travel books, with the discussion revealing a broad conservatism on this point, and a general rejection of fictionalisation as a travel writing practice. This finding is contrasted with ideas voiced during the author¡¯s interviews with notable travel writing practitioners, revealing a significant tension between the production and reception of the genre
%K travel writing
%K reader reception
%K audience
%K fictionalization
%K travellee
%K Paul Theroux
%U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=345078