Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe
Subtitle: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781789207743
Subjects: Balkan peninsula, history
Description: "As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic "Other" living just a stone's throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. To a significant degree, the wider representations and perceptions of this population can be traced to the reports of Central European-and especially Habsburg-diplomats, scholars, journalists, tourists, and other observers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims' encounters with the West since the nineteenth century"--