Backpacking, or Tarmila'ut, has been a time-honored rite of passage
for young Israelis for decades. Shortly after completing their
mandatory military service, young people set off on extensive
backpacking trips to ""exotic"" and ""authentic"" destinations in
so-called Third World regions in India, Nepal, and Thailand in
Asia, and also Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, and
Argentina in Central and South America. Chaim Noy collects the
words and stories of Israeli backpackers to explore the lively
interplay of quotations, constructed dialogues, and social voices
in the backpackers' stories and examine the crucial role they play
in creating a vibrant, voiced community. ""A Narrative Community""
illustrates how, against the peaks of Mt. Everest, avalanches, and
Incan cities, the travelers' storytelling becomes an inherently
social drama of shared knowledge, values, hierarchy, and
aesthetics. Based on forty-five in-depth narrative interviews, the
research in this book examines how identities and a sense of
belonging emerge on different social levels - the individual, the
group, and the collective - through voices that evoke both the
familiar and the Other. In addition, ""A Narrative Community""
makes a significant contribution to modern tourism literature by
exploring the sociolinguistic dimension related to tourists'
accounts and the transformation of self that occurs with the
experience of travel. In particular, it addresses the interpersonal
persuasion that travelers use in their stories to convince others
to join in the ritual of backpacking by stressing the personal
development that they have gained through their journeys. This
volume is groundbreaking in its dialogical conceptualization of the
interview as a site of cultural manifestation, innovation, and
power relations. The methods employed, which include qualitative
sampling and interviewing, clearly demonstrate ways of negotiating,
manifesting, and embodying speech performances. Because of its
unique interdisciplinary nature, ""A Narrative Community"" will be
of interest to sociolinguists, folklore scholars, performance
studies scholars, tourism scholars, and those interested in social
discourses in Israel.
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