The Experience of Cultural Otherness in Ida Pfeiffer's First Travel Book Reise einer Wienerin in das heilige Land
Abstract
Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) has a very prominent place in the history of women's travel literature, because travelling, writing and publishing meant challenging the division of gender roles of the time, which reserved these activities only for men. In this paper I briefly present the five journeys of this woman from Vienna who, with few resources, managed to visit far-flung enclaves in Europe, Asia, America and Africa and to publish a travel book on each of her travels. However, the main objective of this work is to analyse her first publication, Visit to the Holy Land. For this analysis I will consider, on the one hand, the importance of pilgrimages in the history of travel and, on the other, the experience of cultural otherness that the East represents for 19th century Europe.
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