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: Dec 11, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 144 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1138019224
- | ISBN-13: 9781138019225
