Verlag:
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Oxford
Ilija Trojanow, born in Bulgaria in 1965 and brought up in East Africa, established his name as an international writer with the novel Der Weltensammler or The Collector of Worlds (2006), about the cross-cultural Victorian adventurer Sir Richard...
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Ilija Trojanow, born in Bulgaria in 1965 and brought up in East Africa, established his name as an international writer with the novel Der Weltensammler or The Collector of Worlds (2006), about the cross-cultural Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Since the mid-1990s Trojanow has been prolific in a number of genres, including travel, ethnography and science fiction. He has also become a major public intellectual in Austria and Germany with provocative interventions on topics such as Islam and the West, civil rights in the age of cybersurveillance and climate change. His imaginati
Contents; A Note on Citation and Translation; Biographical/Bibliographical Chronology: Ilija Trojanow; JULIAN PREECE Preface; ILIJA TROJANOW AND JULIAN PREECE Interview; ILIJA TROJANOW Weltbürgertum heute: Rede zu einer kosmopolitischen Kultur; CORNELIUS PARTSCH Autopol, Prison Privatisation and the Dystopian Turn in Contemporary Sci-Fi; CAITRÍONA NÍ DHÚILL The Hero as Language Learner; ERNEST SCHONFIELD On the Road to Mecca with Trojanow and Burton; EVA M. KNOPP Letting the Subaltern Laugh; JULIAN PREECE Mr Iceberger Runs Amok: The Aporias of Commitment in EisTau/Melting Ice
CHRISTINA KRAENZLE Rewriting Colonial TraveloguesBEN MORGAN Two Models of Spiritual Life and Narrative Sovereignty; JULIAN PREECE From Kisch to Kapuściński; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
