Karin Baumgartner, Monika Shafi

The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in German, Anxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of travel writing and its connection to current debates.

Introduction - Monika Shafi and Karin Baumgartner
PART I. MIGRATION AND REFUGEES
Travel and Trauma in Post-1989 Europe: Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin and Terézia Mora's Das Ungeheuer - Anke S. Biendarra
Europe, the Middle East, and Identities in Transition: Navid Kermani's Einbruch der Wirklichkeit. Auf dem Flüchtlingstreck durch Europa - Magda Tarnawska Senel
PART II. TRAVELERS AND TOURISTS
Around the World in Seventy Stories: Christoph Ransmayr's Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes - Monika Shafi
The Political Tourist in Juli Zeh's Die Stille ist ein Geräusch - Nicole Coleman
Transnational Turkish-German Travelogues: Turkish-German Women Writers' Millennial Travel Narratives - Heather Merle Benbow
The End of Travel in Sibylle Berg's Wunderbare Jahre and Rolf Niederhauser's Seltsame Schleife - Karin Baumgartner
PART III. EXPLORATION AND NOSTALGIA
Disappearing Act: Felicitas Hoppe's Hoppe and Australian Myths - Andrew Wright Hurley
"Always conceal . . . tthy tenets, thy treasure, and thy travelling." Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow's Travel Narratives About the Middle East - Gundela Hachmann
PART IV. TRAVELING THROUGH MENTAL LANDSCAPES
Walking in Circles: Josef Winkler's Mutter und der Bleistift (2013) - Carola Daffner
Into Thin Air: Extreme Landscapes, Self-Discovery, and Narrative in Christoph Ransmayr's Der fliegende Berg - Nicole Grewling
The Atlas as Travel Writing and as Post-Colonial Critique: Judith Schalansky's Atlas of Remote Islands - Christina Gerhardt
PART V. VISUAL AND SONIC JOURNEYS
Graphic Journeys: Travel Writing and the Medium of Comics - Christina Kraenzle
Travel's Utopian Potential in Andrea Grill's Liebesmaschine N.Y.C. - John Blair and Muriel Cormican
Heimat: Diaspora-Ulrich Seidl's Paradies: Liebe - Sunka Simon
Notes on the Contributors
Index