Bruce Chatwin's "In Patagonia" — Reading and Discussion Questions

Students in English 171, Sages and Satirists, Brown University, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007

• Chatwin in Patagonia: Stumbling Upon Privacy
• Cultural Imposition in Tierra del Fuego
• The Invisible Traveler: Chatwin's Epic Scope
• Chatwin's "Perfect Englishman"
• Revelation in a Notebook
• Jackass Penguins: The South American Idyll
• Butch Cassidy's descent into the last frontier
• Chatwin's Swiss Woman
• Chatwin's Travel narrative
• The Dictionary in Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia
• The Blend of Past and Present in Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia
• Did Chatwin Really Go to Patagonia for a Piece of Skin?
• Chatwin's Geographic Mastery, in Scare Quotes
• The Art of The Parenthetical
• The Role of Chatwin in Chatwin's Legends
• A Few Words for a Few Birds
• Mourning the Loss of Fuegians and Antipodeans
• References outside Patagonia
• Do you see what I see?
• The Mystery of Descriptions in Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia
• Nazis in Our Midst
• The Rest Is Predictable, Chatwin Says
• Walking the Line Between Fiction and Non-Fiction: Chatwin's Use of Memory and Embellishment in In Patagonia
• Chatwin's blunt, bizarrely funny, and engaging statements
• Characters in Chatwin
• The Devices of Historical Fiction in Chatwin's Travel Writing
• Chatwin's Love of Stories
• Death in Patagonia
• Chatwin's qualification of interaction
• Seamless Switching
• Sane man in a land of "locos"
• Bruce Chatwin as Insider/Outsider
• Chatwin's Tall Tales in In Patagonia
• Chatwin's Delay
• Textual Palimpsests in In Patagonia
• McPhee and Chatwin’s Different Treatment of Indigenous Language
• Just a Bit Strange
• The Mirage of Patagonia
• The Good, The Bad, The Ugly in Patagonia
• The Use of Sensory Description in Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia
• A Pool of Blood on Blue Linoleum: the Solitary Barber in Chatwin's In Patagonia
• Bruce Chatwin Explores Conceptualizations of Time

Related Materials

• Characterization in Chatwin, Suleri and Wolfe

Last modified 25 April 2005