The world beyond the West perspectives from Eastern Europe

"No matter how one defines its extent and borders, Eastern Europe has long been understood as a liminal space, one whose undeniable cultural and historical continuities with Western Europe have been belied by its status as an "Other" in the Western imagination. Across illuminating and...

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Weitere Verfasser: Kałczewiak, Mariusz 1987- (HerausgeberIn), Kozłowska, Magdalena ca. 20/21 Jh (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books 2022
Schriftenreihe:New perspectives on Central and Eastern European studies volume 3
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Mariusz Kałczewiak and Magdalena Kozłowska
  • Constructing Aziatchina: an apology for perceived own "emptiness" in Russian national and imperial discourses, 1828-1918 / Batir Xasanov
  • Involuntary Orientalists: Polish exiles and adventurers as observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the Caucasus / Curtis G. Murphy
  • "These sufferers, constantly lamenting their bitter fate": the image of the Mountain Jews in the writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya Anisimov / Mateusz Majman
  • The East-West dichotomy disrupted: triangulation and reflections on the imperial view in Hungarian perceptions of North America / Balázs Venkovits
  • Negotiating empires: Orientalism and Jewish responses to the Palestinian refugee crisis of 1914/15 in Egypt / Jonathan Hirsch
  • From exotic adventure to victimization to estrangement: imagining "Africa" through the eyes of Czechoslovak travel writers (1950s-1980s) / Barbora Buzássyová
  • Land flowing with milk and honey: Polish maritime and River/Colonial League's depictions of South America / Marta Grzechnik
  • Between post-imperial expansion and Promethean mission: Africa and Africans in interwar Polish colonial discourse / Piotr Puchalski
  • Eastern promises: Romanian responses to the Vietnam War / Jill Massino
  • Afterword / Magdalena Kozłowska and Mariusz Kałczewiak