
Strangers in a Strange Land
Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries
Paul Manning(Author)
Academic Studies Press
Published on 14. June 2018
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Paperback/Softback
345 pages
978-1-61811-831-8 (ISBN)
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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 recognized 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 reconquered 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.
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". . . The book promises to play a key role in the further development of Caucasian and Georgian studies, and it opens new territories for exploration and investigation by a hopefully expanded reading public or 'imagined community of scholars.' Particularly relevant here, Manning makes a major contribution by demonstrating how Georgians themselves put together many familiar tropes about the Caucasus stemming from the Russian 'geopoetic and geopolitics' of Romantic poetry and literature, including the 'imperial sublime' and the feminization of Orthodox Georgia as the 'oriental beauty'."- Julie A. Christensen, George Mason University, in the Slavic and East European Journal, 58.2 (Summer 2014)
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English
Place of publication
Brighton
United States
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
529 gr
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978-1-61811-831-8 (9781618118318)
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Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries
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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).