ABSTRACT
For the journey outwards towards other worlds today also reveals an uncertain journey inwards; an expedition that exposes tears in the maps and a stammer in the languages that we in the West have been accustomed to employ … It is as though I have fallen into a fold in time, stumbled across a sharp punctuation in the narrative, as my presence, which once apparently flowed effortlessly across the map, is brought up short, diverted, disrupted, dispersed (Chambers 1994a, 245).
