Strangers in a Strange Land : Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth‐Century Georgian Imaginaries
Manning, Paul
Strangers in a Strange Land : Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth‐Century Georgian Imaginaries - Boston, MA Academic Studies Press 20120601
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In this text 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.
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j.ctt1zxsjjc 9781618117076;9781618119476
10.2307/j.ctt1zxsjjc doi
History History Chavchavadze Droeba Feuilleton Georgia (U.S. state) Georgian language Georgians Intelligentsia Ottoman Empire Peasant Print culture
Strangers in a Strange Land : Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth‐Century Georgian Imaginaries - Boston, MA Academic Studies Press 20120601
Open Access
In this text 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.
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English
j.ctt1zxsjjc 9781618117076;9781618119476
10.2307/j.ctt1zxsjjc doi
History History Chavchavadze Droeba Feuilleton Georgia (U.S. state) Georgian language Georgians Intelligentsia Ottoman Empire Peasant Print culture