Deploying Orientalism in culture and history : from Germany to Central and Eastern Europe /: from Germany to Central and Eastern Europe. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James Hodkinson and John Walker ; with Shaswati Mazumdar and Johannes Feichtinger.
• Editors: Hodkinson, James R, 1973-; Walker, John, 1956 January 14
• Other Names: Mazumdar, Shaswati writer of added text.; Feichtinger, Johannes writer of added text.
• Contents: Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and intercultural dialogue / John Walker -- Friedrich Schlegel's writings on India: reimagining Germany as Europe's true Oriental self / Michael Dusche -- Germany's local Orientalisms / Todd Kontje -- Tales from the Oriental borderlands: on the making and uses of colonial Algiers in Germanophone travel writing from the Maghreb around 1840 / James Hodkinson -- The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: figurations of the Oriental in the German-speaking world / Shaswati Mazumdar -- M.C. Sprengel's writings on India: a disenchanted and forgotten Orientalism of the late eighteenth century / Jon Keune -- Occident and Orient in narratives of exile: the case of Willy Haas's Indian exile writings / Jyoti Sabharwal -- Distant neighbors: uses of Orientalism in the late nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Empire / Johann Heiss and Johannes Feichtinger -- Modes of Orientalism in Hungarian letters and learning of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Margit Koves -- Where the Orient ends? Orientalism and its function for imperial rule in the Russian Empire / Kerstin S. Jobst -- Noncolonial Orientalism? Czech travel writing on Africa and Asia around 1918 / Sarah Lemmen -- Oriental sexuality and its uses in nineteenth-century travelogues / Ulrike Stamm.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, New York : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 259 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 303.48/24305 303.4824305; Orientalism -- Germany -- History; Orientalism -- Europe, Central -- History; Orientalism -- Europe, Eastern -- History; Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism; Orientalism in literature; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German; Civilization -- Oriental influences; Literature; Orientalism; Orientalism in literature; Travelers' writings, European; Europe -- Civilization -- Oriental influences; Orient -- In literature; Asia -- Orient; Europe; Europe, Central; Europe, Eastern; Germany; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781571138828; 1306281121; 9781306281126
• Related ISBNs: 157113882X; 9781571135759; 1571135758
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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