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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Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
Routledge
2015
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Schriftenreihe: | Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe
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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"-- |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | 236 S. 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9781138795143 978-1-138-79514-3 |