Strangers in a Strange Land

Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries

AvPaul Manning

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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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 recognised 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-06-21
Mått:159 x 238 x 23 mm
Vikt:687 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Antal sidor:345
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781936235766

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Paul Manning (PhD University of Chicago) is an associate professor of Anthropology at Trent University. His recent publications include “The Epoch of Magna: Capitalist Brands and Postsocialist Revolutions in Georgia” (Slavic Review), “Rose-Colored Glasses? Color Revolutions and Cartoon Chaos in Postsocialist Georgia” (Cultural Anthropology), “Materiality and Cosmology: Old Georgian Churches as Sacred, Sublime, and Secular Objects” (Ethnos).

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“This is a sophisticated exploration of the complex and often contradictory elements of nation-building and identity-formation in Georgia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Manning, has an extraordinary understanding of the subtleties of Georgian writing. Drawing on Gerogian newspapers, poetry, and short stories, and focusing on Georgia’s encounters with Europe, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire, he weaves together a complex challenge to the familiar Western tropes of the imagined community. Manning has produced a novel theoretical contribution to our ideas about the role of intellectuals in national identity formation.”