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Imagining the Balkans (Paperback, Updated Edition)
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Imagining the Balkans (Paperback, Updated Edition)
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"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was
the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928
publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the
relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich
selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys,
journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the
Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth
century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an
insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became
mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse.
Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique
position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and
in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study
of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the
publication of Imagining theBalkans. The afterword explores the
controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With
this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of
how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of
the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern
history.
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