Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History

James Hodkinson is Reader in German at Warwick University. JOHN WALKER is Emeritus Reader in German Intellectual History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and teaches at the University of Cambridge.

• PrefaceIntroduction(Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and Intercultural DialogueFriedrich Schlegel's Writings on India: Reimagining Germany as Europe's True Oriental SelfGermany's Local OrientalismsTales from the Oriental Borderlands: On the Making and Uses of Colonial Algiers in Germanophone Travel Writing from the Maghreb around 1840The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: Figurations of the Oriental in the German-Speaking WorldM. C. Sprengel's Writings on India: A Disenchanted and Forgotten Orientalism of the Late Eighteenth CenturyOccident and Orient in Narratives of Exile: The Case of Willy Haas's Indian Exile WritingsDistant Neighbors: Uses of Orientalism in the Late Nineteenth-Century Austro-Hungarian EmpireModes of Orientalism in Hungarian Letters and Learning of the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesWhere the Orient Ends? Orientalism and Its Function for Imperial Rule in the Russian EmpireNoncolonial Orientalism? Czech Travel Writing on Africa and Asia around 1918Oriental Sexuality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century TraveloguesNotes on the ContributorsIndex

This book expands and deepens our understanding of European orientalist discourses by not only examining the relatively neglected field of Germanophone orientalism, but also by looking further East to encompass the utterly overlooked orientalisms of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Russia. This collection is required reading for anyone interested in orientalism, travel writing, and the cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe. -Robert Lemon, University of Oklahoma, author of Imperial Messages: Orientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg Fin-de-Siècle