Anxious Journeys (Web PDF) von Karin Baumgartner

The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in GermanAnxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of travel writing and its connection to current debates.

Introduction - Monika Shafi and Karin Baumgartner
PART I. MIGRATION AND REFUGEES
Travel and Trauma in Post-1989 Europe: Julya Rabinowich'sDie Erdfresserin and Terézia Mora'sDas Ungeheuer - Anke S. Biendarra
Europe, the Middle East, and Identities in Transition: Navid Kermani'sEinbruch der Wirklichkeit. Auf dem Flüchtlingstreck durch Europa - Magda Tarnawska Senel
PART II. TRAVELERS AND TOURISTS
Around the World in Seventy Stories: Christoph Ransmayr'sAtlas eines ängstlichen Mannes - Monika Shafi
The Political Tourist in Juli Zeh'sDie Stille ist ein Geräusch - Nicole Coleman
Transnational Turkish-German Travelogues: Turkish-German Women Writers' Millennial Travel Narratives - Heather Merle Benbow
The End of Travel in Sibylle Berg'sWunderbare Jahre and Rolf Niederhauser'sSeltsame Schleife - Karin Baumgartner
PART III. EXPLORATION AND NOSTALGIA
Disappearing Act: Felicitas Hoppe'sHoppe and Australian Myths - Andrew Wright Hurley
"Always conceal . . . tthy tenets, thy treasure, and thy travelling." Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow's Travel Narratives About the Middle East - Gundela Hachmann
PART IV. TRAVELING THROUGH MENTAL LANDSCAPES
Walking in Circles: Josef Winkler'sMutter und der Bleistift (2013) - Carola Daffner
Into Thin Air: Extreme Landscapes, Self-Discovery, and Narrative in Christoph Ransmayr'sDer fliegende Berg - Nicole Grewling
The Atlas as Travel Writing and as Post-Colonial Critique: Judith Schalansky'sAtlas of Remote Islands - Christina Gerhardt
PART V. VISUAL AND SONIC JOURNEYS
Graphic Journeys: Travel Writing and the Medium of Comics - Christina Kraenzle
Travel's Utopian Potential in Andrea Grill'sLiebesmaschine N.Y.C. - John Blair and Muriel Cormican
Heimat: Diaspora-Ulrich Seidl'sParadies: Liebe - Sunka Simon
Notes on the Contributors
Index