Narrating and Constructing the Beach: An Interdisciplinary Approach

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Narrating and Constructing the Beach

An Interdisciplinary Approach

Edited by: Carina Breidenbach , Tamara Fröhler , Dominik Pensel , Katharina Simon , Florian Telsnig and Martin Wittmann

Languages: English, German

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 68 | spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature

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The beach confronts us with crucial issues of our times: migration, postcolonial power structures and mass tourism, climate change and pollution as well as gender and burkini swimwear controversies are examples of the numerous conflicts, discourses and practices that manifest within this liminal zone and that find their focal point there. The interdisciplinary volume understands ‘the beach’ as a (border) phenomenon in its own right and contributes to the new field of beach studies. It takes its point of departure from this changing image of ‘the beach’ to explore how its topographies, experiences and cultural significations are constructed through art, society and culture and how ‘the beach’ shapes poetics and aesthetic strategies in literature, film, photography, painting, music and performance. It aims to gain systematic insights from an analysis of historically and geographically specific varieties of the beach and to create a critical awareness for the contextual implications of contemporary discussions revolving around ‘the beach’.

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Carina Breidenbach, Tamara Fröhler, Dominik Pensel and Katharina Simon, LMU Munich, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Inhalt Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Measuring the Beach: Processes, Practices and Discourses Carina Breidenbach, Tamara Fröhler, Dominik Pensel, Katharina Simon, Florian Telsnig and Martin Wittmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Gedanken über unsichtbare Inselgruppen Yoko Tawada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
(Precluded) Arrivals/Departures
Stranded. The Beach as Ultimate Destination in Joseph Conrad’s Amy Foster and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice Virginia Richter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Dystopie, Utopie, Heterotopie: Die Imagination des Strands in der Literatur von Afropäerinnen Jeannot Moukouri Ekobe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
Figuring Senegalese Beaches in Moussa Sène Absa’s Films Thérèse De Raedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
Drawing and Crossing Lines
Strandbekanntschaften in Georg Forsters Reise um die Welt und das europäische Projekt ‚Zivilisation‘ Carmen Ulrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Wechselnde Gezeiten: Der Strand als Schauplatz für Wendepunkte in Heldendichtung und höfischer Literatur des Mittelalters Désirée Mangard and Miriam Strieder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	146
‘There’s Law on the Beach!’: Law and Order on Los Angeles’s Beaches 1910s–1970s Elsa Devienne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Always on Duty: Galveston’s African American Beaches and Lifeguards Carol Bunch Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	194
Building Structures & Assembling Elements
Sand, Spuren, Architektur – Zur gebauten Ökologie des Strandes Dietrich Erben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
Strandburgen: Eine deutsche Lust? Zum Strandurlaub seit dem späten neunzehnten Jahrhundert Wiebke Kolbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	236
Der Strand als Schauplatz weltweiter Fauna. Exotische naturalia auf Stranddarstellungen Jan van Kessels d.Ä. Robert Bauernfeind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
SHORELINES & SPACES Nadja Grasselli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	276
Bodies in Time: Littoral Rhythms of Death and Desire
Time and Tide Again. Traces, Permeable Spaces and Sensory Perceptions of the Beach in Theodor Storm’s Aquis submersus and HBO’s Big Little Lies Roxanne Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
“Stile balneare.” Singing the Italian Summer by the Seaside (1960s–1980s) Alberto Napoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
The Boys on the Beach: Andrew Holleran’s Fire Island Jack Parlett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
Stimmen über der Tiefe, gärender Schlamm, Wasserleichen – Theodor Storms Strände Christian Begemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	354
Social and Material Transformations
Sisyphos am Strand: Beachcleaning und die litoralen Figurationen fossiler Energiekultur in der zeitgenössischen Umweltfotografie Florian Auerochs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
The Ephemeral Beachscape: Skateboarding and the Appropriation of Suburban Concrete Konstantin Butz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	414
Beached. The Awkward Beginnings of Weimar Democracy Sebastian Haselbeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
Der Strand: What to wear on the beach / Was am Strand anziehen? Barbara Vinken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	448
Revisited Mark Olival-Bartley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	463
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	464

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eBook published on:

October 12, 2020

eBook ISBN:

9783110672244

Hardcover published on:

October 12, 2020

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110671377

Paperback published on:

December 19, 2022

Paperback ISBN:

9783111125473

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Front matter:

10

Main content:

472

Coloured Illustrations:

20

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672244

eBook ISBN: 9783110672244

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110671377

Paperback ISBN: 9783111125473

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Beach; sea; liminality; littoral zone

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Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Film Sudies, Sociology, Gender Studes

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