Tourist traps confounding expectations in Michel Houellebecq's Plateforme

French Cultural Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-90

  Ní Loingsigh, Aedín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Houellebecq; Literary genres; Sex tourism; Stereotypes; Tourists; Travel fiction

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347323497     PISSN: 09571558     EISSN: 17402352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957155805049567     Document Type: Article

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