Balkan perspectives of Europe : between East and West / edited by Eleonora Naxidou and Yura Konstantinova.
| Other author | Naxidou, Eleonōra editor |
| Other author | Konstantinova, I͡Ura editor |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2026. |
| Description | xv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Balkan Occidental Discourse or Balkan Counter-Orientalism / Eleonora Naxidou and Yura Konstantinova -- Diverse Perceptions of Europe in the Newly Founded Greek State / Lina Louvi -- Meeting Europe During a War : Perceptions of the French by Varna Residents During the Crimean War (1853-6) / Ivan Roussev -- 'Mixed Feelings' : Nineteenth-Century Balkan Intellectuals and the Tanzimat / Raymond Detrez -- The West, the East and the Balkans : Bulgarian Intellectuals of the Revival and the Image of Europe / Eleonora Naxidou -- Between Imperial Legacy and European Identity : The Alchemy of Greek Perceptions of Europe / Stamatia Fotiadou -- Images of Russia in the Greek World and Their European Horizon (Eighteenth Century) / Nikolas Pissis -- Traces of American Protestant Missions in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans : Local Perceptions of the USA / Elmira Vassileva -- Modelling Emotions : Bulgarian Perceptions of Russia / Yura Konstantinova -- Postwar Realignment : Yugoslavia Seeks to Join Europe / Robert Niebuhr -- (Step-)Mother Russia : Projections and Mental Maps of Russia in Serbia / Nenad Stefanov -- Heritage and Civilizational Discourse : 'Civilized Europe' and 'Antiquities' in Mid-Nineteenth Century Romania / Roxana Coman -- 'Granma Europe' : Political Imaginary and Representations of Europe in Bulgarian Caricature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century / Dobrinka Parusheva -- The Bulgarian Perception About Russia and the Fate of Russian Monuments in Bulgaria / Tina Georgieva -- Americans Appeared in the Balkans : How They Were Imagined in the Movies from the Region? / Gergana Doncheva. |
| Abstract | "Through the lens of the Balkan nations, this volume makes a valuable and significant contribution to the fields of European and Southeast European studies by reconsidering the East/West dichotomy-both in terms of the Orient-Occident divide and the Eastern-Western Europe binary. Balkan Perspectives focuses on concepts of Europe as articulated in the Balkans from the nineteenth century to the present-an area that remains largely underexplored, despite extensive research on national identity and the construction of the Other. The authors address this scholarly gap through meticulous bibliographic research, drawing on both published and unpublished sources in Balkan languages. A key strength of the collection is its inclusion of contributors from the Balkans as well as from wider European and American academic contexts, enabling a nuanced and comprehensive examination of the subject through internal and external perspectives. The authors argue that, in asserting their cultural identification with Europe, Balkan nations have developed concepts of Europe that resonate with Occidental discourses and offer a counter-narrative to dominant Western conceptualizations of the Balkans. Broadening access to these ideas, this book's approach allows scholars, students, and general readers to deepen their understanding of the Balkan region and its perspectives on identity and otherness." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Balkan perspectives of Europe Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2026 9781003543220 |
| LCCN | 2025028085 |
| ISBN | 9781032895154 |
| ISBN | 9781032895147 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1032895144 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1032895152 (paperback) |
| ISBN | ebk |
| ISBN | |
| ISBN | epub |
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