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By definition, travel narratives invoke an experience of moving between cultural worlds. Only a fraction of travel books in English, however, emphasise the language borders that are crossed in much international travel, and deal in a sustained way with the question of how language impinges on the self. This question is central to a range of memoirs by migrants into English: texts such as Lost in Translation: A life in a new language (1989) by the Polish-born Canadian Eva Hoffman, Polite Lies: On being a woman caught between cultures (1997) by Japanese-born American Kyoko Mori, or Chilean exile to the United States Ariel Dorfman’s Heading South, Looking North: A bilingual journey (1998).1 Migrants into anglophone cultures are increasingly drawing our attention to what is involved in migrating into a new language, but this isn’t the case for people travelling in the opposite direction. The issue of language is also absent from major critical studies of travel writing, such as those by Dennis Porter (1991), Caren Kaplan (1996), Inderpal Grewal (1996), Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan (1998), and is only touched on in Mary Louise Pratt’s influential study Imperial Eyes (1992).2 Unlike ‘landscape’, ‘language’ isn’t featured in any of the indexes of these otherwise wide-ranging books.

Australian ‘immersion’ narratives: memoirs of contemporary language travel