Balkan Departures : : Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe /

Balkan Departures : : Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe / / ed. by Alex Drace-Francis, Wendy Bracewell.

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled 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 moder...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bracewell, Wendy,
Drace-Francis, Alex,
Duda, Dean,
Gvozden, Vladimir,
Kostaridou, Maria,
Kostova, Ludmilla,
HerausgeberIn:
Bracewell, Wendy,
Drace-Francis, Alex,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Balkan Travel Writing: Points of Departure
  • 2. Hodoeporicon, Periegesis, Apodemia: Early Modern Greek Travel Writing on Europe
  • 3. Dinicu Golescu’s Account Of My Travels (1826): Eurotopia as Manifesto
  • 4. Writing Difference/Claiming General Validity: Jovan Ducic’s Cities and Chimaeras and the West
  • 5. Towards a Modernist Travel Culture
  • 6. Getting to Know the Big Bad West? Images of Western Europe in Bulgarian Travel Writing of the Communist Era (1945–1985)
  • 7. New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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