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How do people travel to historical spaces like Galicia today and, above all, what for? This book offers answers to those questions by analysing contemporary representations of Galicia in Polish and German-language literary texts and journalistic travel accounts. Magdalena Baran-Szoltys sheds light on the role of travels to historical spaces and then develops the thesis of Galicia as an archive/archival space in which certain themes, myths, material relics etc. are stored. She determines three types of archives: historical-literary, idiosyncratic and family. The model designed for the study of such journeys provides revealing insights and can be applied to other spaces in Europe with similar characteristics, e.g. Bukovina.

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Magdalena Baran-Szołtys is a Ph.D. candidate at the Doctoral Program Austrian Galicia and its Multicultural Heritage at the University of Vienna. She holds an MA in Germanic Studies and an MA in Slavic Studies. She was a tutor in German Language and Literature at the University of Sydney and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, University of Wrocław, and at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.

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