ISBN:
1443816639
,
9781282585164
,
9781443817882
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 205 S.
,
Ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Imagining 'the Turk'
DDC:
305.8943
Keywords:
Turks Ethnic identity
;
History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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 famin
Description / Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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