Balkan Departures (eBook, ePUB)

Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Redaktion: Bracewell, Wendy; Drace-Francis, Alex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781845459178
• Artikelnr.: 39604374

Autorenporträt

Wendy Bracewell is Senior Lecturer in History and Deputy Director at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, and Director of the AHRC research project 'East Looks West' on East European travel writing in Europe. She has published extensively on the Balkans and on travel writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Balkan Travel Writing: Points of Departure
Wendy Bracewell
Chapter 2. Hodoeporicon, Periegesis, Apodemia: Early Modern Greek Travel
Writing on Europe
Maria Kostaridou
Chapter 3. Dinicu Golescu's Account Of My Travels (1826): Eurotopia as
Manifesto
Alex Drace-Francis
Chapter 4. Writing Difference/Claiming General Validity: Jovan Ducic's
Cities and Chimaeras and the West
Vladimir Gvozden
Chapter 5. Towards a Modernist Travel Culture
Dean Duda
Chapter 6. Getting to Know the Big Bad West? Images of Western Europe in
Bulgarian Travel Writing of the Communist Era (1945-1985)
Ludmilla Kostova
Chapter 7. New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing
Wendy Bracewell
Notes on Contributors
Index