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Book Imagology

Download or read book Imagology written by Manfred Beller and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and national (cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73 contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures and cultures over many centuries; [2] an encyclopedic survey of the stereotypes and characterizations traditionally ascribed to various ethnicities and nationalities; and [3] a conspectus of relevant concepts in various cultural fields and scholarly disciplines. The volume as a whole, as well as each of the articles, has extensive bibliographies for further critical reading. Imagologyis intended both for students and for senior scholars, facilitating not only a first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and poetics of national stereotypes, but also a deepening of our understanding and analytical perspective by interdisciplinary and comparative contextualization and extensive cross-referencing.

Book Reflections on the Image of the Turk in Europe

Download or read book Reflections on the Image of the Turk in Europe written by Nedret Kuran Burçoğlu and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagining    the Turk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Božidar Jezernik
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2009-12-14
  • ISBN : 1443817880
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Imagining the Turk written by Božidar Jezernik and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human being is a symbolic creature and, to the same extent, an active inventor of otherness. Europe and Turkey, The West and the Balkans, are infinitely exploitable symbols. Any symbol, inherently polysemic and socially construed, is continuously contested and negotiated. The image of ‘the Turk’ as a ruthless plunderer is still vivid in European collective memory. Although it occasionally still verges on ethnic mythology, it clearly belongs to a past where, along with the plague and famine, this name used to be mentioned in prayers more frequently than that of God itself. In the past, the name ‘Turk’ implied the negative of the European self-image. ‘The Turk,’ assuming the role of the ‘defining other,’ was considered as everything a European was not (primitive, barbarian, savage vs. civilised). As such, this concept was one of the constitutive elements of European (Western) cultural identity. The aim of this book is nothing less than a better understanding of the European past related to the Ottomans. An intellectual traveller who takes his Orient Express at Victoria, however, will have to get off somewhere half-way and spend some time in the part of Europe set between the Alps and the Adriatic before ending his journey in Istanbul.

Book Historical Image of the Turk in Europe

Download or read book Historical Image of the Turk in Europe written by Mustafa Soykut and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Enemy at the Gate

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  • Author : Andrew Wheatcroft
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2009-04-28
  • ISBN : 0786744545
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Enemy at the Gate written by Andrew Wheatcroft and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host launched bombs, fired cannons, and showered the populace with arrows during the battle for Christianity's bulwark. Each side was sustained by the hatred of its age-old enemy, certain that victory would be won by the grace of God. The Great Siege of Vienna is the centerpiece for historian Andrew Wheatcroft's richly drawn portrait of the centuries-long rivalry between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires for control of the European continent. A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations.

Book Europe in Motion

Download or read book Europe in Motion written by Maurizio Bach and published by edition sigma. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die europäische Integration ist ein zunehmend umstrittenes Thema, weil die Europäische Union nicht nur den Umfang ihrer politischen Kompetenzen ausweitet, sondern zugleich auch die Zahl ihrer Mitglieder vergrößert. Die Erweiterung fordert insbesondere die europäischen Institutionen heraus und bringt substantielle Reformen auf die Tagesordnung, um deren Funktionsfähigkeit zu sichern. Zugleich müssen sich die Institutionen dem Problem stellen, eine Reihe von Gesellschaften mit spezifischen historischen Entwicklungspfaden und besonderen sozialen Rissen zu integrieren. Der Band »Europe in Motion« versammelt fundierte Einblicke in diesen janusköpfigen Vorgang. Zum einen widmen sich die Beiträge den institutionellen Anpassungsprozessen und den gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen, die durch die Erweiterung in Gang gesetzt wurden. Zum anderen nehmen die Autoren die sich verändernde soziale Architektur der EU in den Blick: soziale Konflikte, Solidarität und Identität, Potentiale für institutionelle Regulierung. Der Sammelband plädiert nachdrücklich dafür, daß die Institutionalisierung der EU Rücksicht auf die Spezifika der einzelnen europäischen Gesellschaften nimmt, um institutionelle Fehlanpassungen, Verteilungskonflikte und soziale Spaltungen zu vermeiden.

Book Placing Turkey on the Map of Europe

Download or read book Placing Turkey on the Map of Europe written by Hakan Yılmaz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion  Nationalism and Foreign Policy

Download or read book Religion Nationalism and Foreign Policy written by Filiz Coban Oran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical discussion on how different discourses of nationalism in the Turkish media construct contested concepts of New Turkey's identity, which has great importance for mapping modern Turkey's place in the world of nations. Drawing on a Discourse-Historical Approach, the author analyses different discourses on Turkish national identity and foreign policy in Turkish media in the second term of the AKP government from 2007 to 2011, which was the period of consolidation of Muslim conservative nationalism in both internal and external relations. By using three case studies, including the Presidential elections in 2007, the launch of Kurdish Initiative in 2009, and the debate of axis shift in Western orientation of Turkish Foreign Policy in 2010, the book argues that not only has AKP's Muslim nationalism reconstructed new Turkish foreign policy, but also new Turkish foreign policy discourse has reconstructed Turkish nation's Muslim identity and reinforced Muslim nationalism.

Book Broken Masculinities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cimen Gunay-Erkol
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2016-10-10
  • ISBN : 6155225257
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Broken Masculinities written by Cimen Gunay-Erkol and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Masculinities portrays the post-dictatorial novel of the 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to a 1968-era Turkey, a period which challenges Turkey?s now reinforced Islamic image by portraying the quest for sexual liberation and critical student uprisings. G?nay-Erkol argues that the literature written after the 1970 coup in Turkey constitutes a coherent sub-genre and needs to be considered together. These novels share a common ground which is rich in images of men and women craving for power: general isolation, sexual-emotional frustration, and a traumatic sense of solitude and alienation. This book is an original and significant contribution to two major fields of study: (1) gender and sexuality with respect to formation of subjectivity through literature, and (2) modern literature and history through the study of Turkish literature. The chief concern in this book is not only literature?s response to a particular period in Turkey, but also the role of literature in bearing witness to trauma and drastic political acts of violence?and coming to terms with them. ÿ

Book German Women s Writing in the Twenty first Century

Download or read book German Women s Writing in the Twenty first Century written by Hester Baer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived.

Book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World  2 Vol  Set

Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World 2 Vol Set written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Book The European Union and Cyprus

Download or read book The European Union and Cyprus written by Christopher Brewin and published by Eothen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyprus is a case study in the debate on the future of European identity, responsibility and integration."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The South Slav Journal

Download or read book The South Slav Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mankind Quarterly

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  • Author : Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book The Mankind Quarterly written by Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Women   Islamic Cultures

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women Islamic Cultures written by Suad Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on women and the civilizations and societies in which Islam has played a historic role. Surveys all facets of life (society, economy, politics, religion, the arts, popular culture, sports, health, science, medicine, environment, and so forth) of women in these societies.