Russian Orientalism in a global context Hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740–1940

 
Russian Orientalism in a global context Hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740–1940
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English | ISBN: 1526166232 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 65 MB
This volume features new research on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule. It interrogates how Russia's perception of its position on the periphery of the west and its simultaneous self-consciousness as a colonial power shaped its artistic, cultural and national identity as a heterogenous, multi-ethnic empire. It also explores the extent to which cultural practitioners participated in the discursive matrices that advanced Russia's colonial machinery on the one hand and critiqued and challenged it on the other, especially in territories that were themselves on the fault lines between the east and the west.


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Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England

 
Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031314646 | 366 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body's unstable physical frame, living and dead, as much as in the cultural and social forces at work upon the human body politic at large. Hybridity is unlike other constructs of difference in that, while it is grounded in difference, hybridity points toward sameness. The four types of hybridity studied in medieval English literature show that hybridity can resolve the problems caused by difference. Understanding medieval hybridity can help us to deal with our own contemporary struggles with the mixtures of our own lives and societies.


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Nationalism and Hybridity in Mongolia

 
Nationalism and Hybridity in Mongolia
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English | ISBN: 0198233574 | 1998 | 320 pages | PDF | 45 MB
In this unique and important study of what it means to be a Mongolian in today's world, Dr. Uradyn E. Bulag draws on a vast amount of illuminating research to argue that all Mongols are in fact confronted with a choice between a purist, racialized nationalism (which they inherited from the


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