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Revisiting Austria : tourism, space, and national identity, 1945 to the present /

"Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria's emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation. Among the new developments was mass tourism to the nation's cities, spa towns, and wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graml, Gundolf (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 28.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Tourism, space, and national identiy
  • Part 1. "Where is this much-talked-of Austria?" Remapping post-World-War II Austria
  • We love our Heimat but we need foreigners! Tourism and the reconstruction of Austria, 1945-1955
  • Destination Heimat : mobilizing identity discourses in Counsillor Geiger [Der Hofrat Geiger] (1947)
  • German tourists as guardians of the Austrian Heimat : renegotiating German-Austrian relations in The Forester of the Silver Forest [Echo der Berge/Der Förster vom Silberwald] (1954)
  • Part 2. Dark places : tourism and the representation of Austria's involvement in National Socialism and the Holocaust
  • Linz09: tourism and history on a local, regional, and European level
  • Alpine vampires : the haunted landscapes of Elfriede Jelinek's Children of the Dead (1995)
  • The blind shores of Austrian history : Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara (1995)
  • Part 3. Austrian narratives of place and identity in the context of globalization
  • Trapped bodies, roaming fantasies : mobilizing constructions of place and identity in Florian Flicker's Suzie Washington
  • The copy and the original : The Sound of Music and Austrian national identity
  • Conclusion: When Austria moves to China.