Narrating and Constructing the Beach

An Interdisciplinary Approach
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-112547-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 472 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 711 g

Reihe: ISSN

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’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breidenbach, Carina

Fröhler, Tamara

Wittmann, Martin

Pensel, Dominik

Simon, Katharina

Telsnig, Florian

Über Autor(innen)

Carina Breidenbach, Tamara Fröhler, Dominik Pensel
and
Katharina Simon
, LMU Munich, Germany.