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Heimburger, Matthew. "No More Innocents Abroad: An Interdisciplinary, Cultural Examination of the Post-911 World of American Travelers" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Oct 12, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p105822_index.html>

Heimburger, M. Y. , 2006-10-12 "No More Innocents Abroad: An Interdisciplinary, Cultural Examination of the Post-911 World of American Travelers" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p105822_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: It would appear that by the turn of the millennium, the political/economic dominance of the United States had both enabled an increase in egalitarian global travel, as well as in cultural insularity. Paradoxically the two often come to exist simultaneously within the person and the culture of the American traveler abroad. Before 9/11, anecdotal evidence of "the ugly American" provided folkloric fodder for both sensitive, savvy American travelers, as well as for foreigners still dependent upon their inevitable socio-economic impact. Post 9/11, however, many of those patterns have been in upheaval, and it seems that at a pivotal time for an expansion of international consciousness on the part of the United States and its traveling citizens, the normal functions of international travel/exchange are being subverted by physical and cultural dangers—both real and imagined—found abroad. I wish to examine the world of international, “non-imperial” American travelers (by which I mean the subset of persons more interested in participating directly in the global community than in merely recording themselves against it as a backdrop, as more traditional approaches to tourism facilitate.) I recognize that I am playing loosely with distinctions between traveler/tourist popularized in such recent pop-cultural texts as Alex Garland’s The Beach and innumerable tourist trade ads attempting to brand an “authentic simulacra,” but I am most interested in the interdisciplinary, performative roles of foreign travel by Americans in the pre- versus post-9/11 eras. I believe that while we as Americans have long shown a general inability to travel with empathy, and therefore to receive it in return, we are now in a new phase of geopolitical/geocultural reality that has not been fully “discovered” or “explored.” This may be an aberration or a permanent shift, but to know which it must first be identified—not only as a spatial/geographical phenomenon, but as a kind of cultural cartography and transnational landscape. I will examine the shifting borders of global travel/culture/nationality from the viewpoint of the American traveler, through the combined techniques/texts of literary criticism, folklore/ethnography, and cultural studies. Where possible I will illustrate my contentions through photographs, folktales, and frontline research garnered at home and abroad. Thank you.

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