Reassessing Orientalism

Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War
Herausgeber: Kemper, Michael; Kalinovsky, Artemy M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781138795143
• ISBN-10: 1138795143
• Artikelnr.: 40816310

Autorenporträt

Michael Kemper is Professor of Eastern European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Artemy M. Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor in the European Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era Part 1:
Origins and Comparisons 2. Orients Compared: US and Soviet Imaginaries of
the Modern Middle East Part 2: Transfers 3. From Tents to Citadels: The
Transfer of Oriental Archaeology to Soviet Kazakhstan 4.
'Ulama'-Orientalists: Madrasa Graduates at the Soviet Institute of Oriental
Studies 5. "Because of our Commercial Intercourse and Bringing about a
Better Understanding Between the Two Peoples": A History of Japanese
Studies in the United States Part 3: Competition and Conflict 6. Competing
National Orientalisms: The Cases of Belgrade and Sarajevo 7. Propaganda for
the East, Scholarship for the West: Soviet Strategies at the 1960
International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow 8. Encouraging Resistance:
Paul Henze, the Bennigsen School, and the Crisis of Détente