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Where I belong is who I am. The Search for Identity in Elisabeth Eaves' "Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents"


Term Paper (Advanced seminar), 2014

25 Pages, Grade: 1,0


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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: toward a definition of the modern travel book

2 Home and Identity in Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents
2.1 Relating Home and Identity
2.1.1 Constructing Identity in an increasingly mobile world
2.1.2 Home as Identity
2.1.2.1 Home as a place
2.1.2.2 Home as being-with-others
2.2 Elisabeth’s search for home and identity
2.2.1 Establishing multiple place-based identities
2.2.2 Establishing romantic home-relations
2.3 Homelessness as a result of Elisabeth’s search for home

3 Textual strategies for securing identity
3.1 Elisabeth’s strategies of subjectification
3.1.1 Projecting difference onto the tourist
3.1.2 Projecting difference onto the local
3.2 Elisabeth’s strategies of subjection
3.2.1 Establishing an authentic traveler
3.2.2 Establishing a masculine traveler

4 Conclusion

5 Works cited
5.1 Primary Literature
5.2 Secondary Literature

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Title
Where I belong is who I am. The Search for Identity in Elisabeth Eaves' "Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents"
College
University of Mannheim  (Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft)
Grade
1,0
Author
Year
2014
Pages
25
Catalog Number
V373246
ISBN (eBook)
9783668508323
ISBN (Book)
9783668508330
File size
543 KB
Language
English
Keywords
identity, search, wanderlust, elisabeth, eaves, love, home, narrative, techniques, travel, writer, homelessness, subjection, subjectification, textual strategies
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Marie-Kristin Hofmann (Author), 2014, Where I belong is who I am. The Search for Identity in Elisabeth Eaves' "Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/373246

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