Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-18

Part I - Migration and Refugees

pp 19-20

1 - Travel and Trauma in Post-1989 Europe: Julya Rabinowich’s Die Erdfresserin and Terézia Mora’s Das Ungeheuer

pp 21-39

2 - Europe, the Middle East, and Identities in Transition: Navid Kermani’s Einbruch der Wirklichkeit: Auf dem Flüchtlingstreck Durch Europa

pp 40-56

Part II - Travelers and Tourists

pp 57-58

3 - Around the World in Seventy Stories: Christoph Ransmayr’s Atlas Eines Ängstlichen Mannes

pp 59-74

4 - The Political Tourist in Juli Zeh’s Die Stille ist ein Geräusch

pp 75-89

5 - Transnational Turkish German Travelogues: Turkish German Women Writers’ Millennial Travel Narratives

pp 90-106

6 - The End of Travel in Sibylle Berg’s Wunderbare Jahre and Rolf Niederhauser’s Seltsame Schleife

pp 107-124

Part III - Exploration and Nostalgia

pp 125-126

7 - Disappearing Act: Felicitas Hoppe’s Hoppe and Australian Myths

pp 127-142

8 - “Always Conceal . . . thy Tenets, thy Treasure, and thy Travelling”: Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow’s Travel Narratives about the Middle East

pp 143-158

Part IV - Traveling through Mental Landscapes

pp 159-160

9 - Walking in Circles: Josef Winkler’s Mutter und der Bleistift (2013)

pp 161-176

10 - Into Thin Air: Extreme Landscapes, Self-Discovery, and Narrative in Christoph Ransmayr’s Der Fliegende Berg

pp 177-192

11 - The Atlas as Travel Writing and as Postcolonial Critique: Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands

pp 193-206

Part V - Visual and Sonic Journeys

pp 207-208

12 - Graphic Journeys: Travel Writing and the Medium of Comics

pp 209-232

13 - Travel’s Utopian Potential in Andrea Grill’s s Liebesmaschine N.Y.C.

pp 233-247

14 - Heimat: Diaspora—Ulrich Seidl’s Paradies: Liebe

pp 248-264

Notes on the Contributors

pp 265-270

Index

pp 271-276