Rewriting Alpine Orientalism: postcolonial readings in Canadian and Austrian mountain tourism
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Beteilige Person: Müller, Eva-Maria (VerfasserIn)
Format: Hochschulschrift/Dissertation Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2024
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Links:https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765107775?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
Abstract:"This 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 Orientalismis 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."
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [191]-213
Originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis, University of Giessen, 2020
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9798765107775
9798765107768
9798765107751
DOI:10.5040/9798765107775