Rewriting Alpine Orientalism
Eva-Maria Müller
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Rewriting Alpine Orientalism
Published
2026
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pages
240
ISBN-13
9798765107744
Description
This cross-disciplinary study combines postcolonial, mountain, and tourism studies to explore how meaning about mountains is articulated, generated, asserted and contested within the global circuits of mountain tourism. Rewriting Alpine Orientalism is an open access book that explores how meaning about mountains is articulated, generated, asserted and contested within the global circuits of mountain tourism. Tracing Orientalist and colonial legacies in the project of mountain travel across times, genres and geographies, this book presents a framework capable of analysing and critiquing both particular colonial codifications written onto mountains and the interventions that rewrite mountain tourism. This comparative study bridges the gap between literary and cultural studies and the social and natural sciences with interdisciplinary research across fields such as travel writing, mountain literature, mountaineering history, and ecocriticism, and postcolonial, tourism and gender studies. Eva-Maria M ller examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of historical and contemporary mountain texts such as exploration reports, newspaper articles, guidebooks, diaries, letters and contemporary works of fiction from Angie Abdou, Thomas Wharton, Elfriede Jelinek and Felix Mitterer in a study that enhances our understanding of the role of representation in changing the social real of alpine spaces. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
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This edition of Rewriting Alpine Orientalism has approximately 240 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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The estimated word count for Rewriting Alpine Orientalism is approximately 60,000 words. This figure is calculated using industry-standard methods that consider genre-specific word density patterns, typical formatting and layout characteristics, and standard words-per-page ratios for published books.
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Who is the author of Rewriting Alpine Orientalism?
Rewriting Alpine Orientalism was written by Eva-Maria Müller.
When was Rewriting Alpine Orientalism published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 2026. The original work may have been published on a different date.