caa a22 4500 378883704 CHVBK 20180305123437.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040323xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/ANGL.2003.373 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/ANGL.2003.373 Pordzik Ralph Würzburg Travel Writing and its Discontents: Culture, Tourism and the Dynamics of Narration in Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia and The Songlines [Elektronische Daten] [Ralph Pordzik] It has become customary to consider the travel writing of Bruce Chatwin in terms of its postmodernity, as a mode of writing that disrupts the classical travelogue's literary conventions and reassembles them in terms of pastiche, petit histoire, and parody. In this article, it shall be argued that Chatwin's literary style in The Songlines and In Patagonia is not so much bound up with postmodern claims but with his view of travelling as an act of creating social coherence in a world divided by commercial tourism. Integrating new life-worlds into his writing, Chatwin exposes himself to an insoluble paradox: seizing a foreign culture by imaginary acts of ‘taking part', he can never acquire the authenticity and originality he wishes for. Seeking consistent patterns underlying his experience, Chatwin constantly discovers new materialities of life which resist being accommodated to his imaginative geography; the ideal of experiential coherence he aims at thus becomes more elusive with each new attempt to validate it. © Max Niemeyer Verlage GmbH, Tübingen 2003 Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 121/3(2004-03-23), 373-389 0340-5222 121:3<373 2004 121 ANGL https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2003.373 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2003.373 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pordzik Ralph Würzburg NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 121/3(2004-03-23), 373-389 0340-5222 121:3<373 2004 121 ANGL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter