Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War

Michael Kemper (Curatore)

Artemy M. Kalinovsky (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015

Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, argues that the diffusion of interpretations and techniques in orientalism was not uni-directional, and that the different orientologies – Western, Soviet and oriental orientologies – were interlocked, in such a way that a change in any one of them affected the others; that the different orientologies did not develop in isolation from each other; and that, importantly, those being orientalised were active, not passive, players in shaping how the views of themselves were developed.

• Curatore: Michael Kemper, Artemy M. Kalinovsky
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 246 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 476 gr.
• EAN: 9781138795143

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