Escaping Kakania Eastern European travels in colonial Southeast Asia

"Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters-soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters-who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conv...

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Other Authors: Mrázek, Jan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest CEU Press, Central European University Press 2024, 2024
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:"Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters-soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters-who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European "semi-peripheral" (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers' positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9789633866658