Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Who Speaks? -- Travel as/is . . . -- Seduction by Elsewhere -- Time and the Traveler: Victor Segalen's Exoticism -- Seeing Is Believing: André Gide's Voyage to the Congo, Roland Barthes's Empire of Signs, and Michel Butor's Mobile -- Voodoo and Fetish: Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse and Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa -- Heartless Travelers -- Among Camels and Women: Elias Canetti's Voices of Marrakesh -- Casablanca Revisited: Caryl Phillips's The European Tribe -- From Snakes to Ice: Tété-Michel Kpomassie's An African in Greenland -- From Travelers to Ethnics -- or, Looking for America -- Going North: Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road -- "Where Do You Live?" Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street -- Careless Baptisms: Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation -- Survival Elsewhere -- Speaking Memory: Charlotte Delbo's None of Us Will Return -- Time and the Other Laid Bare: Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and Liana Millu's Smoke over Birkenau -- Speaking of Travel . . . -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.