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Balkan Departures: Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe

Balkan Departures: Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe

Bracewell, Wendy
Drace-Francis, Alex

Hardcover

Literary CriticismEastern European HistoryGeneral European History

ISBN10: 1845452542
ISBN13: 9781845452544
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: May 1 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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