Zajas, Pawel2009-06-012009-06-012007-09Zajas, P 2007, '"Grond van het hemelse volk" : Zuid-Afrika en de "authenticiteit" van de toeristische ervaring in recente Poolse persberichten', Stilet : Tydskrif van die Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 162-176. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_stilet.html]1013-4573http://hdl.handle.net/2263/10262This article offers and analyses of the contemporary touristic experience in South Africa, based on the travel accounts published in the Polish press during 2000-2006. Attempts to explain the authenticity of touristic experience as made by MacCannel in his work 'The Tourist: a new theory of the leisure class' (1976), which is viewed as a classic today. Argues along the lines of postmodern thinkers, such as Slavoj Zizek, whose findings enabled the author to elucidate the contemporary 'touristic habitus' to a more satisfactory level. Claims that it is a tourist's, not an ethnographer's, appreciation of 'authenticity' in the postmodern period that is superior.DutchAfrikaanse LetterkundeverenigingPolish PressTouristic habitusEthnographyTouristic experienceTravel accountsPress -- PolandPolish literatureEthnologyTourism -- South AfricaAuthenticity (Philosophy)Tourists -- South AfricaArticle