Overview

No matter how one defines its extent and borders, Eastern Europe has long been understood as a liminal space, one whose undeniable cultural and historical continuities with Western Europe have been belied by its status as an “Other” in the Western imagination. Across illuminating and provocative case studies, The World beyond the West focuses on the region’s ambiguous relationship to historical processes of colonialism and Orientalism. In exploring encounters with distant lands through politics, travel, migration, and exchange, it places Eastern Europe at the heart of its analysis while decentering the most familiar narratives and recasting the history of the region.

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Author:   Mariusz Kałczewiak ,  Magdalena Kozłowska
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   3
ISBN:  

9781800733527

ISBN 10:   1800733526
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   11 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Affirming and Contesting the Empire Chapter 1. Constructing Aziatchina: An Apology for Perceived Own “Emptiness” in Russian National and Imperial Discourses, 1828-1918 Batir Xasanov Chapter 2. Involuntary Orientalists: Polish Exiles and Adventurers as Observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the Caucasus Curtis G. Murphy Chapter 3. “These Sufferers, Constantly Lamenting Their Bitter Fate”: The Image of the Mountain Jews in the Writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya Anisimov Mateusz Majman Part II: Creating the Other: Travel and Migration Chapter 4. The East-West Dichotomy Disrupted: Triangulation and Reflections on the Imperial View in Hungarian Perceptions of North America Balázs Venkovits Chapter 5. Negogiating Empires: Eastern European Jewish Responses to the Expulsion of Jews from Palestine to Egypt in 1914–1915 Jonathan Hirsch Chapter 6. From Exotic Adventure to Victimization to Estrangement: Imagining “Africa” through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Travel Writers (1950s–1980s) Barbora Buzássyová Part III: Representations and Fantasies Chapter 7. Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. Polish Maritime and River/Colonial League’s Depictions of South America Marta Grzechnik Chapter 8. Between Postimperial Expansion and Promethean Mission: Africa and Africans in Interwar Polish Colonial Discourse Piotr Puchalski Chapter 9. Eastern Promises: Romanian Responses to the War in Vietnam Jill Massino Afterword Magdalena Kozłowska and Mariusz Kałczewiak Index

Reviews

This collection is a timely addition to emerging scholarship on Eastern European participation in the Othering and Orientalizing of the non-European world throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. * Epp Annus, Ohio State University The World Beyond the West makes valuable contributions to the fast-growing international interest in and research on Eastern Europe and its global and transregional contexts. * Frank Hadler, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe

This collection is a timely addition to emerging scholarship on Eastern European participation in the Othering and Orientalizing of the non-European world throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Epp Annus, Ohio State University The World Beyond the West makes valuable contributions to the fast-growing international interest in and research on Eastern Europe and its global and transregional contexts. Frank Hadler, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe

Author Information

Mariusz Kałczewiak is Senior Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His first book, Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press, 2020) won the 2020 Best Book Award of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.

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