The Debated Lands : British and American Representations of the Balkans
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0708319653
ISBN-13
9780708319659
Publisher
University of Wales Press
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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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