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Anxious Journeys - Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German (Hardcover)
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Anxious Journeys - Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German (Hardcover)
Series: 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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