..".offers a set of unique perspectives on how travel writers have
imagined, experienced and represented other people and other
places. It shifts attention to the voices and agency of travellers
from the Balkans and the ways in which they have experienced and
described the sometimes strange and exotic West... Most fascinating
the multi-faceted trajectories of expectations, perceptions and
imageries which reverse the standard hegemonic gaze from West to
East." . Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, School of Slavonic and East
European Studies, University College London
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 defi nitions 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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