Title Deploying Orientalism in culture and history : from Germany to Central and Eastern Europe / edited by James Hodkinson and John Walker ; with Shaswati Mazumdar and Johannes Feichtinger

Published Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2013 ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 259 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 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 Summary Focuses on the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses of ""orientalism"" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 SUBJECT Europe -- Civilization -- Oriental influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045653 Orient -- In literature Subject Asia -- Orient Europe Central Europe Eastern Europe Germany Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Hodkinson, James R., 1973- editor. Walker, John, 1956 January 14- editor. Mazumdar, Shaswati, writer of added text Feichtinger, Johannes, writer of added text ISBN 9781571138828 157113882X 1306281121 9781306281126

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