Maria N. Todorova: Imagining the Balkans

Cover: 9780195387865 | Imagining the Balkans | Maria N. Todorova | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse.

Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.

Über den Autor

Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: Balkanism and Orientalism: Are They Different Categories?

Ch 1:: The Balkans: Nomen

Ch 2:: "Balkans" as Self-designation

Ch 3:: The Discovery of the Balkans

Ch 4:: Patterns of Perception until 1900

Ch 5:: From Discovery to Invention, from Invention to Classification

Ch 6:: Between Classification and Politics: The Balkans and the Myth of Central Europe

Ch 7:: The Balkans: Realia-Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de hors-texte?

Conclusion

Afterword to the Updated Edition

Notes/ Bibliography/ Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780195387865
ISBN-10:	0195387864
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Todorova, Maria N.
Auflage:	updated edition
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press OUP USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Maria N. Todorova
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.2010
Gewicht:	0,442 kg