Narrating and constructing the beach : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Carina Breidenbach [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breidenbach, Carina, editor.

Series:

Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / Spectrum Literature, 1860-210X ; Band 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beaches.

Coast changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 472 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The beach confronts us with crucial issues of our times: migration, postcolonial power structures and mass tourism, climate change and pollution as well as gender and burkini swimwear controversies are examples of the numerous conflicts, discourses and practices that manifest within this liminal zone and that find their focal point there. The interdisciplinary volume understands ‘the beach’ as a (border) phenomenon in its own right and contributes to the new field of beach studies. It takes its point of departure from this changing image of ‘the beach’ to explore how its topographies, experiences and cultural significations are constructed through art, society and culture and how ‘the beach’ shapes poetics and aesthetic strategies in literature, film, photography, painting, music and performance. It aims to gain systematic insights from an analysis of historically and geographically specific varieties of the beach and to create a critical awareness for the contextual implications of contemporary discussions revolving around ‘the beach’.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Measuring the Beach: Processes, Practices and Discourses

Gedanken über unsichtbare Inselgruppen

Stranded. The Beach as Ultimate Destination in Joseph Conrad’s Amy Foster and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice

Dystopie, Utopie, Heterotopie: Die Imagination des Strands in der Literatur von Afropäerinnen

Figuring Senegalese Beaches in Moussa Sène Absa’s Films

Strandbekanntschaften in Georg Forsters Reise um die Welt und das europäische Projekt ‚Zivilisation‘

Wechselnde Gezeiten: Der Strand als Schauplatz für Wendepunkte in Heldendichtung und höfischer Literatur des Mittelalters

‘There’s Law on the Beach!’: Law and Order on Los Angeles’s Beaches 1910s–1970s

Always on Duty: Galveston’s African American Beaches and Lifeguards

Sand, Spuren, Architektur – Zur gebauten Ökologie des Strandes

Strandburgen: Eine deutsche Lust? Zum Strandurlaub seit dem späten neunzehnten Jahrhundert

Der Strand als Schauplatz weltweiter Fauna. Exotische naturalia auf Stranddarstellungen Jan van Kessels d.Ä.

SHORELINES & SPACES

Time and Tide Again. Traces, Permeable Spaces and Sensory Perceptions of the Beach in Theodor Storm’s Aquis submersus and HBO’s Big Little Lies

“Stile balneare.” Singing the Italian Summer by the Seaside (1960s–1980s)

The Boys on the Beach: Andrew Holleran’s Fire Island

Stimmen über der Tiefe, gärender Schlamm, Wasserleichen – Theodor Storms Strände

Sisyphos am Strand: Beachcleaning und die litoralen Figurationen fossiler Energiekultur in der zeitgenössischen Umweltfotografie

The Ephemeral Beachscape: Skateboarding and the Appropriation of Suburban Concrete

Beached. The Awkward Beginnings of Weimar Democracy

Der Strand: What to wear on the beach / Was am Strand anziehen?

Revisited

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-067224-3

OCLC:

1202474914