Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Exile, Tourist, Traveler -- 2. A Travel Guide to Imperial Mythologies: Leningrad -- 3. A Postcolonial Elegy: Mexico -- 4. The Metropolitan Man and the Third World: Rio de Janeiro -- 5. Time, Space, and Orientalism: Istanbul -- 6. Staging Cultural Differences: Venice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.