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Balkan Departures - Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe (Hardcover)
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Balkan Departures - Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe (Hardcover)
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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.'
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