A new Rodopi title

British Literature and the Balkans.
Themes and Contexts.
Hammond, Andrew
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2010, IV, 321 pp.

The manner in which south-east Europe is viewed by western cultures has been an increasingly important area of study over the last twenty years. Through a study of over 300 texts, the volume explores the emergence of the balkanist discourse in British fiction and travel writing in the imperial nineteenth century and its extensive transformations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Read more at http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IMAGOL+16

Southeast European Travel Writing

Wendy Bracewell & Alex Drace-Francis (eds.). Balkan Departures: Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2009.

Contributors: Maria Kostaridou, Alex Drace-Francis, Vladimir Gvozden, Dean Duda, Ludmilla Kostova and Wendy Bracewell

"... 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)



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