The Depiction of the ›Other Woman‹ in Travel Texts

Decock, Sofie; Schaffers, Uta

doi:10.1007/s41244-018-0113-7

Z Literaturwiss Linguistik

2018

DOI: 10.1007/s41244-018-0113-7

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The Depiction of the ›Other Woman‹ in Travel Texts

Sofie Decock

Uta Schaffers

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How to Disembark Completely: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s and Ella Maillart’s Afghan Journey (1939)

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In 1939, when the world was but a step away from the irreversible, Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach set out from Engadine, an Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps, heading for Kabul, Afghanistan. The journey was far from safe; the greatest dangers, though, lurked not so much in the curves and bends of the road as in the recesses of Schwarzenbachʼs boyishly coiffed head. Through a close reading of Maillartʼs and Schwarzenbachʼs memoirs of the trip (The Cruel Way and All the Roads Are Open, respectively), endeavour to determine whether the journey was a means of escape from the impending doom of the war, especially given that they were both anti-fascists, or whether it was instead an attempt to cure Schwarzenbach of her addictions and help her recuperate after yet another stay at a mental hospital following a suicide attempt. Relying on Joseph Campbellʼs mythologically-informed concepts of the hero quest and Maureen Murdockʼs feminist rewriting of Campbellʼs theory, the articleʼs analysis of the two womenʼs accounts of the journey also aims to probe the question of how they performed themselves and staged their travelling bodies in writing on the shaky scene offered by, on the one hand, the limited space of the speeding car and, on the other, by the seemingly boundless expanses of the route they followed.

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How to Disembark Completely: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s and Ella Maillart’s Afghan Journey (1939)

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2022

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The Depiction of the ›Other Woman‹ in Travel Texts

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How to Disembark Completely: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s and Ella Maillart’s Afghan Journey (1939)

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