... something essential has changed — is changing — about the genre: increasingly, it answers to Edward Said’s postcolonialism (e.g. Orientalism), rather than to Granta’s stable. Five travel writers said as much on March 1 in a Hilton Chicago banquet room whose electroliers and possibly-oriental carpet looked like something out of Raban’s mansions. That I was seated on this carpet in an overflow corridor with a dozen other (young, nonwestern) globetrotters is one measure of this change.
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