UID:
almahu_9949065364702882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781787445116 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in German, Anxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of travel writing and its connection to current debates.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021).
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Migration and refugees. Travel and trauma in post-1989 Europe: Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin and Terezia Mora's Das Ungeheuer / Anke S. Biendarra -- Europe, the Middle East, and identities in transition: Navid Kermani's Einbruch der Wirklichkeit: auf dem Fluchtlingstreck durch Europa / Magda Tarnawska Senel -- Travelers and tourists. Around the world in seventy stories: Christoph Ransmayr's Atlas eines Angstlichen mannes / Monika Shafi -- The political tourist in Juli Zeh's Die Stille ist ein Gerausch / Nicole Coleman -- Transnational Turkish German travelogues: Turkish German women writers' millennial travel narratives / Heather Merle Benbow -- The end of travel in Sibylle Berg's Wunderbare Jahre and Rolf Niederhauser's Seltsame Schleife / Karin Baumgartner -- Exploration and nostalgia. Disappearing act: Felicitas Hoppe's Hoppe and Australian myths / Andrew Wright Hurley -- "Always conceal thy tenets, thy treasure, and thy travelling": irony and ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow's Travel narratives about the Middle East / Gundela Hachmann -- Traveling through mental landscapes. Walking in circles: Josef Winkler's Mutter und der Bleistift / Carola Daffner -- Into thin air: extreme landscapes, self-discovery, and narrative in Christoph Ransmayr's Der fliegende Berg / Nicole Grewling -- The atlas as travel writing and as postcolonial critique: Judith Schalansky's Atlas of remote islands / Christina Gerhardt -- Visual and sonic journeys. Graphic journeys: travel writing and the medium of comics / Christina Kraenzle -- Travel's utopian potential in Andrea Grill's Liebesmaschine N.Y.C. / John Blair and Muriel Cormican -- Heimat: Diaspora-Ulrich Seidl's Paradies: Liebe / Sunka Simon.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781640140110
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787445116/type/BOOK
