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Balkan Departures
. Ed(S): Bracewell, Wendy; Drace-Francis, Alex
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hardcover. 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 defi nitions of the West as modern, progressive and rational. Editor(s): Bracewell, Wendy; Drace-Francis, Alex. Num Pages: 176 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HBJD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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. However, the Balkans have also long been travelled from. The region’s writers have given accounts of their travels in the West and elsewhere, saying something in the process about themselves and their place in the world. The analyses presented here, ranging from those of 16th-century Greek ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845452544
SKU
V9781845452544
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Bracewell, Wendy; Drace-Francis, Alex
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.
Reviews for Balkan Departures
“…all the individual contributions are analytically sophisticated as well as readable…What stands out is how this collection as a whole enables us to rethink the significance of West-East connections from the perspective of travel writers from the Balkans who, while reflective of the West, often intended their travelogues to be also mirrors of what was either good or bad at ... Read more