Balkan Departures: Travel Writing from South-Eastern Europe - Softcover

Wendy Bracewell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845457889 ISBN 13: 9781845457884

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2010

Synopsis

Balkan Departures 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 modern, progressive and rational. Full description

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Review:

"...offers a set of unique perspectives on how travel writers have imagined, experienced and represented other people and other places. It shifts attention to the voices and agency of travellers from the Balkans and the ways in which they have experienced and described the sometimes strange and exotic West... Most fascinating the multi-faceted trajectories of expectations, perceptions and imageries which reverse the standard hegemonic gaze from West to East." --Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

About the Author:

Wendy Bracewell is Senior Lecturer in History and Deputy Director at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, and Director of the AHRC research project 'East Looks West' on East European travel writing in Europe. She has published extensively on the Balkans and on travel writing. Alex Drace-Francis is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of The Making of Modern Romanian Culture (2006) and of many articles on Romanian and Balkan history, historiography and literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1845457889
• ISBN 13: 9781845457884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182
• Editor: Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis