Performing identity: Touristic narratives of self-change

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 115-138

  Noy, Chaim ^a  

^a NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Backpacking; Identity; Performance; Personal Narrative; Self Change; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885064858     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1046293042000288353     Document Type: Article

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