Escaping Kakania : Eastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia

• Tác giả: Jan Mrázek
• ISBN-13: 978-9633866665
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : CEU Press, Central European University Press, 2024.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (374 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462818
• Chủ đề: 1. East Europeans--Southeast Asia; 2. Travelers' writings, East European--History and criticism; 3. HISTORY / Europe / Eastern; 4. TRAVEL / Europe / Eastern

Tóm tắt

"Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters-soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters-who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European "semi-peripheral" (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers' positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience"-- Provided by publisher.