The Debated Lands : British and American Representations of the Balkans

Name: The Debated Lands
Brand: University of Wales Press
SKU: 9780708319659
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9780708319659

by Andrew Hammond

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0708319653

ISBN-13 9780708319659

Publisher University of Wales Press

Imprint University of Wales Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 1st, 2006

Print length 256 Pages

Product Classification: Regional studies European history

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Focusing on the genre of travel writing, this book examines over 400 British and American literary texts in order to outline and account for the multiple ways in which the Balkans have been represented from the mid-nineteenth century. It makes use of post-structuralist and post-colonialist studies of cross-cultural discourse.

The negative connotations of the word “balkanization” neatly sum up current attitudes to this maligned region. In The Debated Lands, Andrew Hammond studies hundreds of examples of travel writing to chart the complex history of British and American conceptualizations of the Balkans. Hammond begins with the imperially influenced discourses of the eighteenth century, continues with the sudden allegiances of World War I, observes the ambivalent mixture of sympathy and disappointment that characterized the cold war, and reveals the return to vilification in the 1990s. Comprehensively documenting centuries of criticism and fear, Hammond’s study of the alienation of the Balkans is unique.

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