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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.
In the last few decades, the phrase "spatial turn" has received
increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments
within the discipline of geography. The volume German Women Writers
and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical
category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German
women's writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of
spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect
privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space.
Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization,
migration and immigration, concerns of belonging, points of
encounter, spaces and places of (im-)mobility, topographies of
departure and arrival, movement, motion, or shifting identities.
German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives
continues the challenge to understand the representation of space
and place in German language texts by focusing on how spatial
theory figures into the realm of feminist thinking and writing.
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