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    Literatur in Österreich und Südtirol: Ein Panorama in 30 Aufsätzen by Sigurd Paul Scheichl
    (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2023) Siller, Barbara
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    Care-full academia: From autoethnographic narratives to political manifestos for collective action
    (Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education, the Pathways and Academic Learning Support Centre at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the Centre for Education Research on Identities and Inequalities at Anglia Ruskin University, UK., 2024) MagShamhráin, Rachel
    Building on sociolinguistic analyses of the speech-act of coming out in relation to sexual or gender identity (for example, Livia & Hall 1997) which explored the identity-declaring and identity-making aspects and the consequences of such an utterance, this paper examines the speech act of ‘coming out as a carer’ within the academy, whereby workers declare to their professional community that those acts of care which are generally relegated to the private sphere have a bearing on their professional performances. This illocutionary act of self-definition, which radically and problematically breaches the fourth wall of the private-public divide at work, has several important consequences both negative and positive, for the individual carer but also potentially for the institution and its practices. As in the case of coming out in terms of sexuality or gender, this paper takes the position that such illocutionary acts ‘have the potential force of altering reality for both the speaker and the listener’ (Chirrey 2003). In other words, they have perlocutionary effect.
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    Don’t go! Some agoraphobic postulates for a post-travel world derived from Ingeborg Bachmann’s ‘Probleme Probleme’
    (University of Nebraska Press, 2024-02-22) MagShamhráin, Rachel
    This article explores the new relevance of Ingeborg Bachmann's short story 'Probleme Probleme' and the agoraphobia it examines in what ideally, for environmental reasons, should soon become a post-travel age, which relies on its virtual possibilities to replace movement. The article examines how Bachmann's story deconstructs movement per se, proposing inertia and imagined or text-based journeys in the place of penetrative and real travel. Dieser Artikel untersucht die Relevanz von Ingeborg Bachmanns Kurzgeschichte 'Probleme Probleme' und die darin thematisierte Agoraphobie für ein virtuelles Zeitalter, das möglichst schnell aus Umweltschutzgründen posttouristisch werden sollte. Der Artikel zeigt, wie Bachmanns Text Bewegung als solche dekonstruiert und Trägheit sowie imaginäres oder textbasiertes Reisen als Alternative zu realem Reisen vorschlägt.
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    Walking and cycling as modalities of political enunciation in Paolo Rumiz's A piedi (2012 ‘On foot’) and Tre uomini in bicicletta (2002 ‘Three men on their bikes’)
    (New Prairie Press, 2020) Siller, Barbara
    The great number of travel narratives written by Paolo Rumiz from Trieste, Italy, include books about walking and cycling, as well as travelling by train or ferry. On the one hand, these accounts present detailed descriptions of the routes taken on these journeys, depict illustrations of historic buildings, and display various types of maps, and as such, are meant to serve as walking guides (Rumiz 2012, 12). On the other hand, they become a space of reflection for a wide range of themes, including walking slowly as a way to clear your mind, to comfort your heart, and to heal your body, as a form of escape from a rapid and technologized working life, as a revolutionary act against immoderate lifestyles, as a way of regaining one’s own capacity to take note of miracles (Rumiz 2012), with cycling as an alternative form of travelling, a form of existential nomadism, an expression of solitude and slowness, but also as a form of memory and introspection (Rumiz 2002). The following contribution will explore the expressive modalities of walking and cycling in A piedi (2012) and Tre uomini in bicicletta (2002) by Paolo Rumiz by taking into consideration the three values of walking enunciations as outlined by Michel de Certeau, namely, the truth value, the epistemological value, and the ethical value. I will discuss how Rumiz attempts to integrate these three values in his texts, and how the chosen genre – a hybrid between a diary, a historical guide, a walking guide, and a reflective narrative – allows him to combine all three values to a certain extent. In this way, the narrators explicitly address their readership, consequently taking on social and political responsibilities.
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