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About the Author
KARIN BAUMGARTNER is Professor of German at the University of Utah. KARIN BAUMGARTNER is Professor of German at the University of Utah. MURIEL CORMICAN is Professor of German at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Women and Gender in the Works of Lou-Andreas Salome (CH, 2009).
Reviews
The editors . . . opt[] for a heterogeneous definition [of travel literature] that includes first-person documentaries, fiction and fictionalized travel impressions, visual records such as comics and films, poetic forms, chick lit, and journalistic essays [and] covers gender differences, treats inequality between privileged and desperate travel, illustrates the injustice between poverty and wealth, and connects sex travel and exploitation. . . . [A]cute analyses . . . . A valuable resource for those interested in contemporary German culture. Recommended. * CHOICE *
With the consideration of other forms of media like comics and film, this volume exceeds the boundaries of literature per se and thereby dares to move forward exploratively into truly unknown climes. -- Michaela Holdenried * GEGENWARTSLITERATUR *
Since the beginning of the 21st century, German fictional and nonfictional travel literature alike have taken a more anxious look at travel, as Karin Baumgartner and Monika Shafi demonstrate in their multifaceted and cleverly introduced anthology. What they title summatively as Anxious Journeys encompasses various experiences of a loss of lightheartedness. . . . The volume brings . . . hitherto understudied aspects of travel into the focus of research and illuminates travel literature as "the most socially important of all literary genres." -- Bjoern Weyand * GERMANISTIK *
Book Information
ISBN 9781640140110
Author Karin Baumgartner
Format Hardback
Page Count 284
Imprint Camden House Inc
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g