Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewThis cross-disciplinary study combines postcolonial, mountain, and tourism studies to explore how meaning about mountains is articulated, generated, asserted and contested within the global circuits of mountain tourism. Rewriting Alpine Orientalism is an open access book that explores how meaning about mountains is articulated, generated, asserted and contested within the global circuits of mountain tourism. Tracing Orientalist and colonial legacies in the project of mountain travel across times, genres and geographies, this book presents a framework capable of analysing and critiquing both particular colonial codifications written onto mountains and the interventions that rewrite mountain tourism. This comparative study bridges the gap between literary and cultural studies and the social and natural sciences with interdisciplinary research across fields such as travel writing, mountain literature, mountaineering history, and ecocriticism, and postcolonial, tourism and gender studies. Eva-Maria Müller examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of historical and contemporary mountain texts – such as exploration reports, newspaper articles, guidebooks, diaries, letters and contemporary works of fiction from Angie Abdou, Thomas Wharton, Elfriede Jelinek and Felix Mitterer – in a study that enhances our understanding of the role of representation in changing the social real of alpine spaces. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. Eva-Maria Müller (University of Innsbruck, Austria)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 9798765107737Pages: 240 Publication Date: 03 October 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Translation Introduction 1. Alpine Orientalism: Key Concepts in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mountain Travel Writing 2. Time: Alpine Writing Back in Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail 3. Gaze: Narrating the Living Mountain in Thomas Wharton’s Icefields 4. Body: From 'Sexed Subjects' to an Embodied Counter-Discourse in Felix Mitterer's Die Piefke-Saga 5. Language: Postcolonial Allegory in Elfriede Jelinek's In den Alpen Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsRewriting Alpine Orientalism shows us how imperial cultures have long imagined mountain places as idealized figures of timelessness and vacancy, and mountain peoples as fixed entities of rustic backwardness. It shows us how Alpine Orientalism continues to underwrite the exploitation of mountain landscapes through travel writing, through popular culture and through the tourist industry. And then, in the imaginative work of Canadian and Austrian writers, it seeks ways of seeing mountains otherwise – ways that push back and think forward towards genuine sustainability for mountain places, peoples and practices. This is literary analysis at large in the real world. This is postcolonial criticism you can really use. * Stephen Slemon, Professor Emeritus, English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada * With a keen postcolonial approach, Müller’s account of the imperial gaze of mountain tourism and its devastating impact on fragile ecosystems and the people who live there is wide-ranging, impassioned and persuasive. She delivers incisive readings of four contemporary texts that subvert the categories of Alpine Orientalism and invite transformative change. * Caroline Schaumann, Professor of German Studies, Emory University, USA * Author InformationEva-Maria Müller is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
