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"The train of thought": classed travel and nationality in Willa Cather's My Antonia.

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From: Studies in American Fiction
Date: 20010922
Author:Palmer, Scott

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth.

--Robert Louis Stevenson, From Scotland to Silverado

"To write is, of course, to travel," writes Iain Chambers near the beginning of his fine study of modern itinerancy, Migrancy, Culture, Identity. His suggestion that language itself is a form of travel, "a caravan of thought," echoes in Robert Louis Stevenson's meditation on the relative breakdown of domestic/foreign binaries within travel. (1) Stevenson's description ...

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