Balkan Departures - Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe (Hardcover)

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place traveled 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 traveled from. The region's writers have offered 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 travelers 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.'

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2009
Editors:	Wendy Bracewell • Alex Drace-Francis
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-84545-254-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > History > European history > General Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
LSN:	1-84545-254-2
Barcode:	9781845452544

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