Rewriting Alpine Orientalism

Rewriting Alpine Orientalism examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of mountain representation from the Canadian Rockies and Austrian Alps, including exploration reports, newspaper articles, promotional documents, governmental records, mountaineering reports, guidebooks, travel diaries, letters, poems, novels, and TV series. Tracing Orientalist and colonial legacies in the project of mountain travel across times, genres, and geographies, this comparative study examines the ways in which Orientalism is evidenced in mountain writing from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries and deployed by contemporary authors in critical rewritings. Rewriting Alpine Orientalism presents a framework capable of analyzing and critiquing particular colonial codifications written onto mountains and the interventions that rewrite mountain tourism.