Open AccessMiędzy romansem a orientalizmem. Tysiąc i jedna opowieść o miłości
Author(s) -
Katarzyna GórakSosnowska
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
kwartalnik kolegium ekonomiczno-społecznego studia i prace
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2082-0976
DOI - 10.33119/kkessip.2016.1.3
Subject(s) - romance , tourism , narrative , german , context (archaeology) , orientalism , feeling , phenomenon , history , sociology , gender studies , aesthetics , literature , psychology , art , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , archaeology
The paper describes the phenomenon of romance tourism through the narratives taken from the German Internet portal 1001-Geschichte.de. Romance tourism is a term used to characterize women who during holidays in the countries of global south engage in a personal relationship with a local man. As that relationship is emotional in character it cannot be limited to simple sex tourism. The German portal connects women whose feeling were abused by local man. The stories they share are consistent with narrative structures used for describing romantic love in the Western culture. However, due to the specific context, exotic environment and different cultural background of the lover, those stories are all examples of Saidian orientalism. Those dimensions form the subject of the present paper.