Reassessing Orientalism interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War

"Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, ar...

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Weitere Verfasser: Kemper, Michael (HerausgeberIn), Kalinovsky, Artemy M. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London u.a. Routledge 2015
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe 23
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Zusammenfassung:"Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, argues that the diffusion of interpretations in orientalism was not uni-directional, and that the different orientologies, Western, Soviet and Oriental, did not develop in isolation from each other and were interlocked in such a way that a change in any one of them affected the others; and that those being orientalised were active, not passive, players in shaping how views of themselves developed"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:236 S.
24 cm
ISBN:9781138795143
978-1-138-79514-3