Reassessing orientalism interlocking orientologies during the Cold War
"Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, ar...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2015
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, argues that the diffusion of interpretations in orientalism was not uni-directional, and that the different orientologies, Western, Soviet and Oriental, did not develop in isolation from each other and were interlocked in such a way that a change in any one of them affected the others; and that those being orientalised were active, not passive, players in shaping how views of themselves developed"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | 236 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781138102033 9781138795143 |