Europe and Its Others: Essays on Interperception and Identity (Paperback)

Contents: Tessa Hauswedell: Introduction ? Paul Gifford: Defining ‘Others’: how interperceptions shape identities ? Jane Pettegree: Writing Christendom in the English Renaissance: a reappraisal of Denys Hay’s view of the emergence of ‘Europe’ ? Kate Marsh: The feminized Indian Other: English and French conceptions of ‘womanhood’ ? Patricia Howe: Appropriation and alienation: women travellers and the construction of identity ? Wanda Campbell: Eden lost and found: early Canadian women poets look back to Europe ? Judith Froemmer: Crucesignati - signed with the cross: Tasso’s poetics of crusade ? Volker Langbehn: Disciplining the black body: German colonialism and visual violence ? Sven Kramer: Including and excluding the Holocaust: changing perceptions in German and European identities ? Michaela Peroutkova: Narratives about the expulsion of Germans: a German-Czech comparison ? Boris Previsic: Europe’s blind spot on violence: the fall of Yugoslavia and references to World War II ? Jonathan H. Hsy: ‘Oure Occian’: littoral language and the Constance narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio ? Frances Nethercott: Russia and the West: Russian histories of the European Other ? Meliz Ergin: Otherness within Turkey, and between Turkey and Europe ? Roger Hillman: Transnationalism in the films of Fatih Akin ? Kunio Tsunekawa: ‘Mirror of the West’: a critique and a plea.