From Purkersdorf to Peking: Tourism and Globalization in Ingeborg Bachmann's "Malina" and Elfriede Jelinek's "Gier"

Beginning with an off-color and seemingly off-topic parenthetical joke near the conclusion of Elfriede Jelinek's novel Gier (2000), this article reads that book beside a draft fragment of Ingeborg Bachmann's 1971 novel Malina called "Besichtigung einer alten Stadt" in order to re...

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Published inJournal of Austrian studies Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 19 - 41
Main Author Fleishman, Ian Thomas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The University of Nebraska Press 22.09.2014
University of Nebraska Press
Austrian Studies Association
Subjects
Anecdotes
Bachmann, Ingeborg
Criticism and interpretation
Globalization
Jelinek, Elfriede
Jokes
Narratives
Narrators
National identity
Novelists
Novels
Tour guides
Tourism
Travel industry
Works
Written narratives
Austria
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Summary:Beginning with an off-color and seemingly off-topic parenthetical joke near the conclusion of Elfriede Jelinek's novel Gier (2000), this article reads that book beside a draft fragment of Ingeborg Bachmann's 1971 novel Malina called "Besichtigung einer alten Stadt" in order to reveal how both authors simultaneously resist but nevertheless participate in international literary tourism relating to their native Austria. Both authors grapple with what it means to write of a national home in an apparently postnational era, but whereas Bachmann's work is still marked by a nostalgia for the inherently transnational Austro-Hungarian Empire, Jelinek comes to understand the postnational as the very occasion for the construction of national identity.
ISSN:2165-669X
2327-1809
2327-1809
DOI:10.1353/oas.2014.0035