Overview
Orientalism - the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected their writing about the East, the "Other" - applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study of exotic peoples incorporated into the Russian Empire became a major academic industry and the standpoint of writers greatly affected what they wrote. Russian/Soviet orientalism had a particularly important impact during the creation of new Central Asian republics, and this book explores this influence, providing a rich picture of academic politics, and showing how academic cultural classification cemented political boundaries, often in unhelpful ways.
- | Author: Alfrid K. Bustanov
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Oct 13, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 172 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0815365721
- | ISBN-13: 9780815365723
