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The East-West Discourse: Symbolic Geography and its Consequences
Contributor(s): Jaskulowski, Krzysztof (Other), Kamusella, Tomasz (Other), Maxwell, Alexander (Editor)
ISBN: 3034301987     ISBN-13: 9783034301985
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
OUR PRICE:   $77.96  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science
- History | Europe - General
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
Dewey: 303.482
LCCN: 2010041555
Series: Nationalisms Across the Globe
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 237 pages
 
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Political actors from many different countries locate their home country as a unique transition point between the East and the West . The terms east and west have become highly symbolic, yet also have a relative meaning, since every place is east of somewhere, and west of somewhere else. What gives this banal clich such irresistible attraction? How does East-West symbolism interact with other symbolic geographies? This book examines East-West rhetoric in several different historical contexts, seeking to problematize its implicit assumptions and analyse its consequences, particularly in parts of Europe where political actors conflate local geography with symbolic Easts and Wests .
The various contributions to the book provide an overview of East-West discourses in scholarly writing; trace the medieval origins of European East-West symbolism; and discuss East-West discourses in nineteenth-century Germany, interwar Poland, Yugoslavia and Transylvania, twentieth-century Finland, Turkey in the late Cold War and post-Communist Belarus.