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Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling. The case studies assembled in this volume discuss a variety of traveling practices, experiences, and media with chapters featuring Asian, American, and European historical and contemporary perspectives. Truly interdisciplinary in its approach, the volume identifies and examines diverse literary, historical and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which traveling and the body intersect, including 'classic' travelogues, (new) media (e.g., film, digital travel apps), surf culture, and travel-inspired tattoos. The contributions offer various avenues for further research, not only for scholars working with body theory and travel (writing), but also for anyone interested in the intersections of literature, culture, media, and embodied practices of traveling.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Traveling Bodies: An Introduction
Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, and Uta Schaffers
I: The Body as Concept and Metaphor
The Scientist-Traveler and the Woman-as Land: Sexual Topographies in A New Description of Merryland (1741)
Sarah Schäfer-Althaus
From Facts to Physicality: Body Concepts in German Travel Writing Around 1800
Sonja Klein
Motherhood and the Embodied Traveler in Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Elizabeth Zold
II: Other Bodies
Beasts on Board: Traveling Animals and Pacific Voyages in the First Two Ages of Exploration
Mira Shah
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Body of her Letters, or: The Traveler Lost and Found in Scandinavia
Michael Meyer
"The most dirtiest children": Spectacles of Otherness on the American Frontier
Nicole Maruo-Schröder
III: Crossing Borders: The Body and its Liminal Zones
"My condition gets worse day by day": Controlling Traveling Bodies on the Move in Edo-Period Japan
Andreas Niehaus
"The 'Food Question' is said to be the most important one for all travelers": Eating in Travel Writing
Uta Schaffers
Going Undercover? Female Bodies and Clothes under Scrutiny in Travel Literature
Sofie Decock
IV: Mobility, Perception, Experience
Surfing Wanderlust: Surf Tripping Bodies as Cultural Bearers
Anne Barjolin-Smith
Traveling Bodies in Film: Embodied Encounters and Negotiating Selves
Anne von Petersdorff-Campen
Tattooed Cartographies and the Displaced Body in an Age of Political Conflict
Karly Etz
Strolling through the City on a Self-Guided Tour: Embodied Engagement with the Urban Space
Nora Winsky
Index
