Hodkinson / Walker / Feichtinger Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History

From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-57113-882-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 143, 268 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Focuses on the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses of "orientalism" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodkinson, James R

Walker, John

Feichtinger, Shaswati Mazumdar and Johannes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
(Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and Intercultural Dialogue
Friedrich Schlegel's Writings on India: Reimagining Germany as Europe's True Oriental Self
Germany's Local Orientalisms
Tales from the Oriental Borderlands: On the Making and Uses of Colonial Algiers in Germanophone Travel Writing from the Maghreb around 1840
The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: Figurations of the Oriental in the German-Speaking World
M. C. Sprengel's Writings on India: A Disenchanted and Forgotten Orientalism of the Late Eighteenth Century
Occident and Orient in Narratives of Exile: The Case of Willy Haas's Indian Exile Writings
Distant Neighbors: Uses of Orientalism in the Late Nineteenth-Century Austro-Hungarian Empire
Modes of Orientalism in Hungarian Letters and Learning of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Where the Orient Ends? Orientalism and Its Function for Imperial Rule in the Russian Empire
Noncolonial Orientalism? Czech Travel Writing on Africa and Asia around 1918
Oriental Sexuality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century Travelogues
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hodkinson James R:
James Hodkinson is Reader in German at Warwick University.Walker John:
JOHN WALKER is Emeritus Reader in German Intellectual History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and teaches at the University of Cambridge.