Europe and its others
Subtitle: essays on interperception and identity
By: Paul Gifford, Tessa Hauswedell.
Contributors: Hauswedell, Tessa, 1978-
Series: Cultural identity studies -- v. 18
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9783039119684
Subjects: Group identity -- Europe -- Congresses; National characteristics, European -- Congresses; Europe -- Civilization -- Public opinion -- Congresses; Europe -- Foreign public opinion -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: vi, 297 p. ; 23 cm
Notes: "The essays represent a selection of papers delivered at an international conference held under the title 'Europe and its Others: Interperceptions, Past, Present, Future', at St Andrews University in June 2007, under the aegis of the Institute for European Cultural Identity Studies"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining "Others" : how interperceptions shape identities / Paul Gifford; title: Writing Christendom in the English Renaissance : a reappraisal of Denys Hay's view of the emergence of  "Europe" / Jane Pettegree; title: The feminized Indian other : English and French conceptions of "womanhood" / Kate March; title: Appropriation and alienation : women travellers and the construction of identity / Patricia Howe; title: Eden lost and found : early Canadian women poets look back to Europe including and excluding histories of violence / Wanda Campbell; title: Crucesignati signed with the Cross : Tasso's poetics of crusade / Judith Froemmer; title: Disciplining the black body  : German colonialism and visual violence / Volker Langbehn; title: Including and excluding the Holocaust : changing perceptions in German and European identities / Sven Kramer; title: Narratives about the expulsion of Germans : a German-Czech comparison / Michaela Peroutkova; title: Europe's blind spot on violence : the fall of Yugoslavia and references to World War II / Boris Previsic; title: "Oure Occian" : littoral language and the Constance narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio / Jonathan H. Hsy; title: Russia and the West : Russian histories of the European Other / Frances Nethercott; title: Otherness within Turkey, and between Turkey and Europe / Melz Ergin; title: Transnationalism in the films of Fatih Akin / Rober Hillman; title: "Mirror of the West" : a critique and a plea / Kunio Tsunekawa.