Balkan Departures :: Travel Writing from South-eastern Europe.

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place traveled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive - traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern...

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1. Verfasser: Bracewell, Wendy
Weitere Verfasser: Drace-Francis, Alex
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2009.
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Zusammenfassung:In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place traveled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive - traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern, progressive, and rational. However, the Balkans have also long been traveled from. The region's writers have offered accounts of their travels in the West and elsewhere, saying something in the process about themselves and their place in the world. The analyses presented here, ranging from those o.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (183 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781845459178
1845459172
1282627767
9781282627765
9786612627767
661262776X

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