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Anxious journeys : twenty-first-century travel writing in German /

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baumgartner, Karin, 1964- (Editor ), Shafi, Monika (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2019.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.