Format:
VIII, 259 S.
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graph. Darst
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23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
1571135758
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9781571135759
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and intercultural dialogue / John Walker -- Friedrich Schlegel's writings on India: reimagining Germany as Europe's true Oriental self / Michael Dusche -- Germany's local Orientalisms / Todd Kontje -- Tales from the Oriental borderlands: on the making and uses of colonial Algiers in Germanophone travel writing from the Maghreb around 1840 / James Hodkinson -- The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: figurations of the Oriental in the German-speaking world / Shaswati Mazumdar -- M. C. Sprengel's writings on India: a disenchanted and forgotten Orientalism of the late eighteenth century / Jon Keune -- Occident and Orient in narratives of exile: the case of Willy Haas's Indian exile writings / Jyoti Sabharwal -- Distant neighbors: uses of Orientalism in the late nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Empire / Johann Heiss and Johannes Feichtinger -- Modes of Orientalism in Hungarian letters and learning of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Margit Koves -- Where the Orient ends? Orientalism and its function for imperial rule in the Russian Empire / Kerstin S. Jobst -- Noncolonial Orientalism? Czech travel writing on Africa and Asia around 1918 / Sarah Lemmen -- Oriental sexuality and its uses in nineteenth-century travelogues / Ulrike Stamm
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
(Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and intercultural dialogue
,
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
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
German Studies
,
Theology
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Mitteleuropa
;
Orientalismus
;
Geschichte
;
Deutschland
;
Osteuropa
;
Mitteleuropa
;
Russland
;
Orientbild
;
Indienbild
;
Geschichte 1750-2000
;
Orientalistik
;
Said, Edward W. 1935-2003 Orientalism
;
Kontroverse
;
Interkulturelle Kompetenz
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42236
URL:
http://www.camden-house.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14407
Author information:
Walker, John 1956-
Author information:
Hodkinson, James 1973-
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