Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism
This comparative study examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of mountain representation from the Canadian Rockies and Austrian Alps, including exploration reports, newspaper articles, promotional documents, governmental records, mountaineering reports, guidebooks, travel diaries, lette...
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| description | This comparative study examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of mountain representation from the Canadian Rockies and Austrian Alps, including exploration reports, newspaper articles, promotional documents, governmental records, mountaineering reports, guidebooks, travel diaries, letters, poems, novels, and TV series. Tracing Orientalist and colonial legacies in the project of mountain travel across times, genres, and geographies, Müller examines the ways in which Orientalism is evidenced in mountain writing from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries and deployed by contemporary authors in critical rewritings. Rewriting Alpine Orientalism presents a framework capable of analysing and critiquing particular colonial codifications written onto mountains and the interventions that rewrite mountain tourism. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1497762025-01-15T13:48:34Z Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism Mueller, Eva-Maria Anglistik ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Anglistik (602008) Germanistik ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Germanistik (602014) Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein (DSB) -- Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000 (DSBH) -- Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur (DSBH5) Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker (DSG) Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren (DSK) Bergliteratur Tourismus Rocky Mountains Alpen Postkoloniale Studien Orientalismus Anti-Heimatliteratur mountain literature tourism Canadian Rockies Alps postcolonial studies Orientalism Anti-Heimatliteratur English studies ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- English studies (602008) German studies ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- German studies (602014) Literary studies: postcolonial literature Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: general (DSB) -- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 (DSBH) -- Literary studies: postcolonial literature (DSBH5) Literary studies: plays and playwrights Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: plays and playwrights (DSG) Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers (DSK) This comparative study examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of mountain representation from the Canadian Rockies and Austrian Alps, including exploration reports, newspaper articles, promotional documents, governmental records, mountaineering reports, guidebooks, travel diaries, letters, poems, novels, and TV series. Tracing Orientalist and colonial legacies in the project of mountain travel across times, genres, and geographies, Müller examines the ways in which Orientalism is evidenced in mountain writing from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries and deployed by contemporary authors in critical rewritings. Rewriting Alpine Orientalism presents a framework capable of analysing and critiquing particular colonial codifications written onto mountains and the interventions that rewrite mountain tourism. Rewriting Alpine Orientalism verbindet das Forschungsfeld der postkolonialen Studien mit dem der Tourismusforschung und Bergwissenschaften, um zu erforschen, wie die Bedeutung von Bergen im globalen Kontext des Bergtourismus formuliert, erzeugt, behauptet und angefochten wird. Dabei wird neben zahlreichen neuen Perspektiven auf den Berg auch ein entscheidender Theorietransfer unternommen, welcher postkoloniale Theoreme von heißen, außereuropäischen und niedergelegenen Regionen in kalte, hochgelegene und sogar innereuropäische Schauplätze überführt. Der Fokus der Studie liegt auf den kanadischen Rocky Mountains und den österreichischen Alpen und umfasst Literatur des 19., 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. 2025-01-15T13:48:33Z 2025-01-15T13:48:33Z 2024-12-20T04:00:24Z 2024 book book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96049 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/149776 eng open access image/png n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/96049/1/doab%3ffunc%3dcover%26rid%3dnull Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic f75587da-2374-4722-9d42-9fffa7fa3f92 a39fc2ba-9538-4bcd-965c-6702ff320840 b9371148-b736-41bc-8876-c3872008fb40 Bloomsbury Academic https://doi.org/10.55776/PUB1131 Austrian Science Fund (FWF) open access |
| spellingShingle | Anglistik ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Anglistik (602008) Germanistik ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Germanistik (602014) Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein (DSB) -- Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000 (DSBH) -- Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur (DSBH5) Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker (DSG) Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren (DSK) Bergliteratur Tourismus Rocky Mountains Alpen Postkoloniale Studien Orientalismus Anti-Heimatliteratur mountain literature tourism Canadian Rockies Alps postcolonial studies Orientalism Anti-Heimatliteratur English studies ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- English studies (602008) German studies ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- German studies (602014) Literary studies: postcolonial literature Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: general (DSB) -- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 (DSBH) -- Literary studies: postcolonial literature (DSBH5) Literary studies: plays and playwrights Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: plays and playwrights (DSG) Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers (DSK) Mueller, Eva-Maria Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism |
| title | Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism |
| title_full | Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism |
| title_fullStr | Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism |
| title_short | Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism |
| title_sort | rewriting alpine orientalism postcolonial readings in canadian and austrian mountain tourism |
| topic | Anglistik ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Anglistik (602008) Germanistik ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Germanistik (602014) Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein (DSB) -- Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000 (DSBH) -- Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur (DSBH5) Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker (DSG) Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren (DSK) Bergliteratur Tourismus Rocky Mountains Alpen Postkoloniale Studien Orientalismus Anti-Heimatliteratur mountain literature tourism Canadian Rockies Alps postcolonial studies Orientalism Anti-Heimatliteratur English studies ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- English studies (602008) German studies ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- German studies (602014) Literary studies: postcolonial literature Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: general (DSB) -- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 (DSBH) -- Literary studies: postcolonial literature (DSBH5) Literary studies: plays and playwrights Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: plays and playwrights (DSG) Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers (DSK) |
| topic_facet | Anglistik ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Anglistik (602008) Germanistik ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Germanistik (602014) Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein (DSB) -- Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000 (DSBH) -- Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur (DSBH5) Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker (DSG) Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren (DSK) Bergliteratur Tourismus Rocky Mountains Alpen Postkoloniale Studien Orientalismus Anti-Heimatliteratur mountain literature tourism Canadian Rockies Alps postcolonial studies Orientalism Anti-Heimatliteratur English studies ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- English studies (602008) German studies ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- German studies (602014) Literary studies: postcolonial literature Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: general (DSB) -- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 (DSBH) -- Literary studies: postcolonial literature (DSBH5) Literary studies: plays and playwrights Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: plays and playwrights (DSG) Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers (DSK) |
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