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The World beyond the West
Perspectives from Eastern Europe
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- English
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About this book
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 provocative case studies, The World beyond the West focuses on the region's ambiguous relationship to historical processes of colonialism and Orientalism. In exploring encounters with distant lands through politics, travel, migration, and exchange, it places Eastern Europe at the heart of its analysis while decentering the most familiar narratives and recasting the history of the region.
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Table of contents
- The World beyond the West
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I — Affirming and Contesting the Empire
- Chapter 1 — Constructing Aziatchina: An Apology for Perceived Own “Emptiness” in Russian National and Imperial Discourses, 1828–1918
- Chapter 2 — Involuntary Orientalists: Polish Exiles and Adventurers as Observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the Caucasus
- Chapter 3 — “These Sufferers, Constantly Lamenting Their Bitter Fate”: The Image of the Mountain Jews in the Writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya Anisimov
- Part II — Creating the Other: Travel and Migration
- Chapter 4 — The East-West Dichotomy Disrupted: Triangulation and Reflections on the Imperial View in Hungarian Perceptions of North America
- Chapter 5 — Negotiating Empires: Eastern European Jewish Responses to the Expulsion of Jews from Palestine to Egypt in 1914–15
- Chapter 6 — From Exotic Adventure to Victimization to Estrangement: Imagining “Africa” through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Travel Writers (1950s–80s)
- Part III — Representations and Fantasies
- Chapter 7 — Land Flowing with Milk and Honey: Polish Maritime and River/Colonial League’s Depictions of South America
- Chapter 8 — Between Postimperial Expansion and Promethean Mission: Africa and Africans in Interwar Polish Colonial Discourse
- Chapter 9 — Eastern Promises: Romanian Responses to the War in Vietnam
- Afterword
- Index