Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austrias emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation. Among the new developments was mass tourism to the nations cities, spa towns, and wilderness areas, a phenomenon that would prove immensely influential on the development of a postwar identity. Revisiting Austria incorporates films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nations often violent and troubled history.
Arvustused
Gundolf Gramls book presents a fresh, enterprising assessment of the role played by tourism in the construction of Austrianness under the Second Republic[ It] offers much to mull over and invigorates both tourism and Austrian history with new approaches. Journal of Austrian Studies
Revisiting Austria is one of the best works that I have read on the issue of coming to terms with the Nazi pastin this case, Austrias difficulty in confronting it. The authors suggestions that this legacy is less repressed than disruptive is a significant contribution. Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron
This is an impressive piece of interdisciplinary work, drawing on a range of diverse sources and demonstrating a confident command of the literature. Despite covering quite a lot of ground, it is a pleasurable and easy read. Tim Kirk, Newcastle University
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Where is this Much-Talked-Of Austria? Remapping PostWorld War II
Austria
Chapter
1. We Love Our Heimat But We Need Foreigners!: Tourism and the
Reconstruction of Austria 194555
Chapter
2. Destination Heimat: Mobilizing Identity Discourses in Counsillor
Geiger [ Der Hofrat Geiger] (1947)
Chapter
3. German Tourists as Guardians of the Austrian Heimat:
Renegotiating German Austrian Relations in The Forester of the Silver
Forest [ Echo der Berge/Der Förster vom Silberwald] (1954)
Part II: Dark Places: Tourism and the Representation of Austrias
Involvement in National Socialism and the Holocaust
Chapter
4. Linz09: Tourism and History on a Local, Regional, and European
Level
Chapter
5. Alpine Vampires: The Haunted Landscapes of Elfriede Jelineks
Children of the Dead
Chapter
6. The Blind Shores of Austrian History: Christoph Ransmayrs Morbus
Kitahara
Part III: Austrian Narratives of Place and Identity in the Context of
Globalization
Chapter
7. Trapped Bodies, Roaming Fantasies: Mobilizing Constructions of
Place and Identity in Florian Flickers Suzie Washington
Chapter
8. The Copy and the Original: The Sound of Music and Austrian
National Identity
Conclusion: When Austria Moves to China
Gundolf Graml is Professor of German and Assistant Dean for Global Learning at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
