Today’s world is akin to a global network where spatial, linguistic and cultural mobility reshapes our identities. This mobility is unprecedented in its scope, and is caused by a multitude of reasons, from purely leisurely travel to desperate flight. The “Going North” conference addressed the role of travel – past and present – and intercultural communication connected to travel.
Contributors are:
Eva Lambertsson Björk and Jutta Eschenbach: Introduction
Part 1: Encountering the Other – Crossing Borders?
- Kathryn Walchester: Employment, Mobility and Intercultural Communication in British Travelogues from the Long Nineteenth Century
- Eva Lambertsson Björk and Jutta Eschenbach: A Beetle on the Loose—Wilson MacArthur: An Auto Nomad in Post War Sweden
- Melanie Duckworth: “Travelling North Together”—the North, Whales, and Intercultural Communication in Kathleen Jamie’s Essays and Poems
- Maria Selezneva: Translation between Cultures in the Field of Travel
Part 2: Perceiving the North – Issues of Identity and Ways of Thinking
- Janicke Stensvaag Kaasa: “A Country of Unanswered Questions”—Pierre Berton: The Mysterious North
- Joanna Witkowska: “Sikorski’s Tourists” and their Confrontation with the “Icy North”
- Karen Patrick Knutsen: Moving South to Envision the North: Seamus Heaney’s North
- Oana Cogeanu: Representations of the North in African-American Travel Writing
- Mieke Neyens: Where North and South Meet: Mexico’s norte in Norwegian Travel Writing