Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Migration and Refugees
6. 1: Travel and Trauma in Post-1989 Europe: Julya Rabinowich’s Die Erdfresserin and Terézia Mora’s Das Ungeheuer 19
7. 2: Europe, the Middle East, and Identities in Transition: Navid Kermani’s Einbruch der Wirklichkeit: Auf dem Flüchtlingstreck durch Europa 40
8. Part II Travelers and Tourists
9. 3: Around the World in Seventy Stories: Christoph Ransmayr’s Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes 57
10. 4: The Political Tourist in Juli Zeh’s Die Stille ist ein Geräusch 75
11. 5: Transnational Turkish German Travelogues: Turkish German Women Writers’ Millennial Travel Narratives 90
12. 6: The End of Travel in Sibylle Berg’s Wunderbare Jahre and Rolf Niederhauser’s Seltsame Schleife 107
13. Part III Exploration and Nostalgia
14. 7: Disappearing Act: Felicitas Hoppe’s Hoppe and Australian Myths 125
15. 8: “Always conceal . . . thy tenets, thy treasure, and thy travelling”: Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow’s Travel Narratives about the Middle East 143
16. Part IV Traveling through Mental Landscapes
17. 9: Walking in Circles: Josef Winkler’s Mutter und der Bleistift (2013) 159
18. 10: Into Thin Air: Extreme Landscapes, Self Discovery, and Narrative in Christoph Ransmayr’s Der fliegende Berg 177
19. 11: The Atlas as Travel Writing and as Postcolonial Critique: Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands 193
20. Part V Visual and Sonic Journeys
21. 12: Graphic Journeys: Travel Writing and the Medium of Comics 207
22. 13: Travel’s Utopian Potential in Andrea Grill’s Liebesmaschine N.Y.C. 233
23. 14: Heimat: Diaspora—Ulrich Seidl’s Paradies: Liebe 248
24. Notes on the Contributors 265
25. Index 271