The Courtyard in the Mirror / by Emine Sevgi Özdamar / Translated by Leslie A. Adelson
The Courtyard in the Mirror Emine Sevgi Özdamar Translated by Leslie A. Adelson Download PDF Abstract: This multilingual short story is a multifaceted gem of contemporary fiction. Tracking habits and ruptures in the daily lives of her neighbors and interlocutors around a German courtyard, a Turkish migrant begins to model-whimsically and with punning poignancy-something approximating […]
„Felsenwand“ vs. „Blumental“: Fremdwahrnehmung und Selbststilisierung in J.G. Seumes Mein Sommer 1805 / by Jakob Starzinger
„Felsenwand“ vs. „Blumental“: Fremdwahrnehmung und Selbststilisierung in J.G. Seumes Mein Sommer 1805 Jakob Starzinger Download PDF Abstract: Der Beitrag verortet Johann Gottfried Seumes Reisebericht “Mein Sommer 1805” im Kontext der Reiseliteratur der Spätaufklärung und interpretiert ihn im methodischen Anschluss an neuere Ansätze der kulturpoetischen Ethnographie als Manifestation einer der personalen und der nationalen Identitätsbildung dienenden […]
Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and The European Road Movie, by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli / Reviewed by Steve Choe
Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and The European Road Movie, by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli Reviewed by Steve Choe Download PDF Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli. Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and The European Road Movie. London: Wallflower Press, 2006. Pp. 245. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00. It is frankly astonishing to read that, according to […]
Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing, by John Zilcosky / Reviewed by Christina Gerhardt
Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing, by John Zilcosky Reviewed by Christina Gerhardt Download PDF John Zilcosky. Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xvi, 289. Cloth $79.95. Paper $26.95. As much a meditation on the relationship among Franz Kafka’s writing, travel and travel […]