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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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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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