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Balkan Departures
- Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Engelsk Hardback
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- Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Engelsk Hardback

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In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern, progressive and rational. However, the Balkans have also long been travelled from. The region’s writers have given accounts of their travels in the West and elsewhere, saying something in the process about themselves and their place in the world. The analyses presented here, ranging from those of 16th-century Greek humanists to 19th-century Romanian reformers to 20th-century writers, socialists and ‘men-of-the-world’, suggest that travellers from the region have also created their own identities through their encounters with Europe. Consequently, this book challenges assumptions of Western discursive hegemony, while at the same time exploring Balkan ‘Occidentalisms’.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781845452544
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1845452542
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2009
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2009
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge