Self-Transformation through Dangerous Travel: Mary Morris’s Nothing to Declare and Audrey Schulman’s The Cage

doi:10.4324/9781351301169-7

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Self-Transformation through Dangerous Travel: Mary Morris’s Nothing to Declare and Audrey Schulman’s The Cage

ABSTRACT

The central topos of the heroic male adventurer, the “monarch-of- all-he-surveys,” has been turned inside out. It is a loss rather than certainty that impels the journey, dissolution of self rather than a vindication of self that is sought.