Anxious Journeys

Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German

AvKarin Baumgartner,Monika Shafi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del 202 i serien Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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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.The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty-first-century travel writing in German has until now been missing.The fourteen essays in Anxious Journeys redress this situation. They analyze texts by leading authors such as Felicitas Hoppe, Christoph Ransmayr, Julie Zeh, Navid Kermani, Judith Schalansky, Ilija Trojanow, and others, as well as topics such as Turkish-German travelogues and the relationship of comics to travel writing. The volume examines how writers engage with classic tropes of travel writing and how they react to the current sense of crisis and belatedness. It also links travel to ongoing debates about the role of the nation, mass migration, and the European project, as well as to Germany's place in the larger world order.Contributors: Karin Baumgartner, Heather Merle Benbow, Anke S. Biendarra, John Blair and Muriel Cormican, Nicole Coleman, Carola Daffner, Christina Gerhardt, Nicole Grewling, Gundela Hachmann, Andrew Wright Hurley, Christina Kraenzle, Magda Tarnawaska Senel, Monika Shafi, Sunka Simon.Karin Baumgartner is Professor of German at the University of Utah. Monika Shafi is Elias Ahuja Professor of German at the University of Delaware.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:622 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781640140110

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KARIN BAUMGARTNER is Professor of German at the University of Utah. KARIN BAUMGARTNER is Professor of German at the University of Utah. MURIEL CORMICAN is Professor of German and Chair of Modern Language Studies at Texas Christian University.

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The editors . . . opt[] for a heterogeneous definition [of travel literature] that includes first-person documentaries, fiction and fictionalized travel impressions, visual records such as comics and films, poetic forms, chick lit, and journalistic essays [and] covers gender differences, treats inequality between privileged and desperate travel, illustrates the injustice between poverty and wealth, and connects sex travel and exploitation. . . . [A]cute analyses . . . . A valuable resource for those interested in contemporary German culture. Recommended.

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Introduction - Monika Shafi and Karin BaumgartnerPART I. MIGRATION AND REFUGEESTravel and Trauma in Post-1989 Europe: Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin and Terézia Mora's Das Ungeheuer - Anke S. BiendarraEurope, the Middle East, and Identities in Transition: Navid Kermani's Einbruch der Wirklichkeit. Auf dem Flüchtlingstreck durch Europa - Magda Tarnawska SenelPART II. TRAVELERS AND TOURISTSAround the World in Seventy Stories: Christoph Ransmayr's Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes - Monika ShafiThe Political Tourist in Juli Zeh's Die Stille ist ein Geräusch - Nicole ColemanTransnational Turkish-German Travelogues: Turkish-German Women Writers' Millennial Travel Narratives - Heather Merle BenbowThe End of Travel in Sibylle Berg's Wunderbare Jahre and Rolf Niederhauser's Seltsame Schleife - Karin BaumgartnerPART III. EXPLORATION AND NOSTALGIADisappearing Act: Felicitas Hoppe's Hoppe and Australian Myths - Andrew Wright Hurley"Always conceal . . . tthy tenets, thy treasure, and thy travelling." Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow's Travel Narratives About the Middle East - Gundela HachmannPART IV. TRAVELING THROUGH MENTAL LANDSCAPESWalking in Circles: Josef Winkler's Mutter und der Bleistift (2013) - Carola DaffnerInto Thin Air: Extreme Landscapes, Self-Discovery, and Narrative in Christoph Ransmayr's Der fliegende Berg - Nicole GrewlingThe Atlas as Travel Writing and as Post-Colonial Critique: Judith Schalansky's Atlas of Remote Islands - Christina GerhardtPART V. VISUAL AND SONIC JOURNEYSGraphic Journeys: Travel Writing and the Medium of Comics - Christina KraenzleTravel's Utopian Potential in Andrea Grill's Liebesmaschine N.Y.C. - John Blair and Muriel CormicanHeimat: Diaspora-Ulrich Seidl's Paradies: Liebe - Sunka SimonNotes on the ContributorsIndex