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This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites – spaces of leisure, healing and work. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and considers how players in the hospitality industry do not interact as coeval participants, but are racialised, scripted and positioned according to colonially-established order. The authors focus on the language of these encounters, not only speech, performance and response, but also silence, resonance, emptiness, noise – objectified, materialised, evasive and confusing. Through its exploration of language in these encounters, the volume shows that ruination is the one feature that is omnipresent in the multiple and diverse tourist settings of the postcolonial world. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.
Anne Storch is a Professor in the Institute of African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. She has published widely on African languages, African sociolinguistics, tourism and critical heritage studies, metalinguistic discourse and colonial linguistics.
Angelika Mietzner is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research interests include Nilotic languages, African sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics and tourism.
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Chapter 1. Boarding
Chapter 2. Terrible Magical Ways of Healing
Chapter 3. The Philosophy of Hakuna Matata
Chapter 4. Karen
Chapter 5. Highway to Hell
Chapter 6. Ruins on the Beach
Chapter 7. Relocation and Relationships
Chapter 8. On Various Boundaries
Chapter 9. Hostility on a T-Shirt
Chapter 10. Movies on Sex Tourism that You Shouldn’t Miss
Chapter 11. The Ancient Speaker
Chapter 12. Cooking Class
Chapter 13. Glossy Glossary
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