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portada Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: German Literature and the Mobilities Turn
Type
Physical Book
Author
Illustrated by
Publisher
Year
2016
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.4 x 15.0 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.34 kg.
ISBN13
9783034322188
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Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: German Literature and the Mobilities Turn

Anita Perkins (Author) · Tim Mehigan (Illustrated by) · Professor Gerhard Schulz (Illustrated by) · Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis · Paperback

Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: German Literature and the Mobilities Turn - Mehigan, Tim ; Professor Gerhard Schulz ; Perkins, Anita

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Synopsis "Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: German Literature and the Mobilities Turn"

How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This question is at the heart of this book, which brings together two main areas of scholarship: the cultural analysis of German literature and film and the emerging field of mobilities studies, which places movement and travel at the centre of human experience. The author grounds her analysis in two main concepts or ways of being: dwelling, or remaining in one place, which connotes stability, groundedness and permanence; and mobility, or travel to other destinations, which connotes movement, change and uncertainty. Travel Texts and Moving Cultures provides a comparison of travel writing from two significant periods of global social change: historical (1770-1830) and contemporary (1985-2010). The study includes literature such as Georg Forster's A Voyage Round the World (1777), which recounts the young German scientist's journey to New Zealand with Captain Cook; Erich Loest's Zwiebelmuster [Blue Onion] (1985), which exposes the travel desires of East Germans before the Wende via a semi-autobiographical narrator; and Bernhard Schlink's Die Heimkehr [Homecoming] (2006), which recontextualises and deconstructs Homer's Odyssey in the present moment through a son's search for his father. Whereas a culture founded on mobilities and a desire for travel emerges in the historical period, the contemporary period reveals an increasingly mobile world in which travel is regarded as a human right. The approach taken in this book sheds light on the ethics of ever-increasing mobility and problematises the possibility of homecoming.

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