Strangers in a strange land : occidentalist publics and orientalist geographies in nineteenth century georgian imaginaries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manning, Paul, 1964-

Contributor:

National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, Funder.

Series:

Cultural revolutions.

Cultural revolutions, Russia in the twentieth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Georgia (Republic).

Group identity.

Intellectuals--Georgia (Republic)--History--19th century.

Intellectuals.

Georgia (Republic)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Georgia (Republic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p. ) ill., maps

Other Title:

Occidentalist publics and orintalist geographies in nineteenth century georgian imaginaries

Place of Publication:

Brighton : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

Academic Studies Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 reconquered 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Europe Started Here

I: Languages of Nature, Culture, and Civilization: Letters of a Traveler

II: Imperial and Colonial Sublime: The Aesthetics of Infrastructures

III: Correspondence: "Georgians, that is, readers of Droeba"

IV: Spies and Journalists: Aristocratic and Intelligentsia Publics

V: Writers and Speakers: Pseudonymous Intelligentsia and Anonymous People

VI: Dialogic Genres: Conversations and Feuilletons

VII: Writing and Life: Fact and Fairy Tale

VIII: Fellow Travelers: Localism, Occidentalism, and Orientalism

Conclusion: A Stranger from a Strange Land

Endnotes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781618117076

1618117076

9781618111258

1618111256

OCLC:

1135589680