TY - JOUR

T1 - Literary Trails, Urban Space and the Actualization of Heritage

AU - Saretzki, Anja

N1 - Copyright (c) 2013 Anja Saretzki

PY - 2014/1

Y1 - 2014/1

N2 - The look at the websites of tourist information offices of a lot of cities recently shows a new trend: walking tours on the trail of a novel, so-called literary trails. The city is explored following the trail of a fictional character. In novels drawing intensely on history, heritage sites become interlinked from a new perspective. Tourists follow these trails like neo-pilgrims. Hall’s circuit of culture can be used to describe these relationships. Heritage manifests itself not just in traditional local practices, but is also formed in the global space of discourses. Heritage as a traditional practice is encoded on specific local conditions. These encodings can be stabilized in global discourses (e. g. in discourses on a novel or a film) but can be externalized as well. Externalized heritage is disembedded from its traditional framing. It becomes decoded under new conditions and is dynamized by tourist practices. The question is, which kind of reading turns out to be the dominant one for the heritage. The invention of literary trails can be considered from different perspectives with regard to the city and its heritage, which should be discussed with the help of two spanish novels.

AB - The look at the websites of tourist information offices of a lot of cities recently shows a new trend: walking tours on the trail of a novel, so-called literary trails. The city is explored following the trail of a fictional character. In novels drawing intensely on history, heritage sites become interlinked from a new perspective. Tourists follow these trails like neo-pilgrims. Hall’s circuit of culture can be used to describe these relationships. Heritage manifests itself not just in traditional local practices, but is also formed in the global space of discourses. Heritage as a traditional practice is encoded on specific local conditions. These encodings can be stabilized in global discourses (e. g. in discourses on a novel or a film) but can be externalized as well. Externalized heritage is disembedded from its traditional framing. It becomes decoded under new conditions and is dynamized by tourist practices. The question is, which kind of reading turns out to be the dominant one for the heritage. The invention of literary trails can be considered from different perspectives with regard to the city and its heritage, which should be discussed with the help of two spanish novels.

KW - Tourism studies

KW - Literaturtourismus

KW - Kulturelles Erbe

KW - Stadtraum

KW - Literary Tourism

KW - Literary Trails

KW - Heritage

KW - Circuit of Culture

U2 - 10.6092/issn.2036-5195/4061

DO - 10.6092/issn.2036-5195/4061

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 4

SP - 61

EP - 77

JO - Almatourism – Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development

JF - Almatourism – Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development

SN - 2036-5195

IS - 8

ER -