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1 Online-Ressource (374 p.)
ISBN:
9789633866665
Content:
Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European “semi-peripheral” (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers’ positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience. The travellers moved—as do the chapter authors—between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly “Eastern,” and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of “Europe,” “East,” and East-West distinctions. Both at home and overseas, they navigated among a multiplicity of peoples, “races,” and empires, Occidents and Orients, fantasies of the Self and the Other, adopting/adapting/mimicking/rejecting colonialist identities and ideologies. They saw both eastern Europe and southeast Asia in a distinctive light, as if through each other—and so will the readers of Escaping Kakania
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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INTRODUCTORY (DIS)ORIENTATION A Czech’s View from Singapore
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THE DUTCH EAST INDIES IN THE EYES OF A POLE Teodor Anzelm Dzwonkowski and His Memoirs of Service in the Dutch Navy in the Years 1788–1793
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CZECH ARMY DOCTOR IN SUMATRA Native Soil, Miasmatic Mud, Russian Hallucinations, All the Empires
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THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SINGAPORE IN SERBIAN LITERATURE
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JULIAN FAŁAT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Hybridity and Mimicry in the Memoirs of a Polish/ Kakanian/European Painter
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COLONIALISM, FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND POLISH AMBIGUITY How Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski and Bronisław Piłsudski (Almost) Met in Singapore
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THE FATE OF THE BIRDS OF PARADISE Enrique Stanko Vráz in Southeast Asia
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ETHNIC COMPARISONS IN TRAVELOGUES ABOUT SOUTHEAST ASIA BY POLES AND SERBS OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN BACKGROUND, 1869–1914
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THE POLISH BOTANIST MARIAN RACIBORSKI AND HIS 1901 WAYANG KULIT PERFORMANCE Images and Encounters
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THE IDENTITY OF THE STRANGE The (Post)colonial Perspective in the Texts and Pictures of László Székely
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ISLANDS OF PARADISE? JAVA AND BALI THROUGH AWOMAN’S EYES The Journey of Ilona Zboray
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INDOCHINA’S DEADLY SUN The Polish Maritime and Colonial League’s Depictions of Southeast Asia
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CZECHOSLOVAKS IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYA BEFORE AND DURING WORLD WAR II
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COLONIALISM MEETS EMPATHY AND INSIGHTFULNESS Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s Travel Diary to Burma
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DOUBLE VISION Yugoslav Travelers and the Conflicting Images of Southeast Asia in the Era of Late Colonialism
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CONTRIBUTORS
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Index
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789633866665
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