Strangers in a strange land
Subtitle: occcidentalist publics and Orientalist geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian imaginaries
Series: Cultural revolutions; Faculty Publications Collection (Thomas J. Bata Library)
Publisher: Academic Studios Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781936235766
Subjects: Intellectual life
Description: 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 re-conquered 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.
Notes: DON810/2013

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-332) and index