Revisiting Austria draws on a rich selection of films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Part I: "Where is this Much-Talked-Of Austria?" Remapping Post-World War II Austria Chapter 1. 'We Love Our Heimat But We Need Foreigners!': Tourism and the Reconstruction of Austria 1945-55 Chapter 2. Destination Heimat: Mobilizing Identity Discourses in Counsillor Geiger [Der Hofrat Geiger] (1947) Chapter 3. German Tourists as Guardians of the Austrian Heimat: Renegotiating German - Austrian Relations in The Forester of the Silver Forest [Echo der Berge/Der Förster vom Silberwald] (1954) Part II: Dark Places: Tourism and the Representation of Austria's Involvement in National Socialism and the Holocaust Chapter 4. Linz09: Tourism and History on a Local, Regional, and European Level Chapter 5. Alpine Vampires: The Haunted Landscapes of Elfriede Jelinek's Children of the Dead Chapter 6. The Blind Shores of Austrian History: Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara Part III: Austrian Narratives of Place and Identity in the Context of Globalization Chapter 7. Trapped Bodies, Roaming Fantasies: Mobilizing Constructions of Place and Identity in Florian Flicker's Suzie Washington Chapter 8. The Copy and the Original: The Sound of Music and Austrian National Identity Conclusion: When Austria Moves to China