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Strangers in a strange land : occidentalist publics and orientalist geographies in nineteenth century Georgian imaginaries /
In this text Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of "Europe," at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cultural revolutions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this text Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of "Europe," at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia attempted to forge European style publics as a strong claim to European identity. These attempts also produced a crisis of self-definition, as European Georgia sent newspaper correspondents into newly re-conquered Oriental Georgia, only to discover that the people of these lands were strangers. In this encounter, the community of "strangers" of European Georgian publics proved unable to assimilate the people of the "strange land" of Oriental Georgia. This crisis produced both notions of Georgian public life and European identity which this book explores |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1618111256 9781618111258 9781618117076 1618117076 |