Charles Burdett and Derek Duncan (eds) Cultural Encounters--European Travel Writing in the 1930 224pp Oxford: Berghahn parts 2002.

Charles Burdett and Derek Duncan (eds) Cultural Encounters--European Travel Writing in the 1930 224pp Oxford: Berghahn parts 2002. ISBN 1-57181-810-3, $75.00/50.00 [pound sterling] (cloth); ISBN 1-57181-501-5 $2500/ 1700 [pound sterling] (paper).

In her intriguing analysis of sum of two units women photographers in Republican Spain, Jo Labanyi makes extensive intimation to Walter Benjamin (pp. 85-103) The latter's meditations upon photographic representations of the ruins of history provide an ideal opportunity to consider by what means counter-hegemonic gender portraits chronicle the Civil War's 'unrealized potential of forgotten material lives and objects' (p 102) Beyond