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In this post, I’d like to take a step back and reflect on the Travel Litterature class this semester. First and foremost, I want to mention that the most important thing that I feel I’ve learned is the idea of ‘Voyage around my room’ where travel is really depicted as a mindset. There are some strenght and some weaknesses to this argument but what most impacted me was just that I had never though or reflected on travel at such a deep level.
This brings me to my second point. This class was interesting for the reflexions and discussions we made on different texts. Through travel litterature, we’ve explored, to name a few, the topics of culture, consciousness, gender role/identification and history. Another element that will stick with me beyond this class is the idea that travel influences the tourist and the locals. We tend to focus on our experiences and our perceptions of a foreign place. By doing so, we often forget to take into account what our hosts learned from us. Travel is, in a very litteral way, a mean of sharing ideas and thoughts. Some can even argue that the most important facet of travel is the cultural impact it has on the tourist, who experieces a new way of life, and the host, who learns of the worldviews of a distant nation.
What are your opinions of the class? What is the most important thing that you learned in the past weeks?

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