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(EN)GENDERING A EUROPEAN PERIPHERY: IMAGES OF THE BALKANS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH FICTION


LUDMILLA KOSTOVA
University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria

Issue:

CP, Number 2

Section:

No. 2 (1997)

Abstract:

The present essay is about the Balkans as an imaginative-geographical topos. Such topoi are, as a rule, easily classifiable in terms of self / same - other relations. A classification along such lines may involve the identification of a centre, embodying what happens to be seen as ideologically important at a given moment, and a periphery or peripheries.

Keywords:

(civilised, orderly) centre, dichotomy (inside / outside, identity / difference, self, same / other), (en) gender (ing), Eurocentrism, myth (of the vampire), Orientalism / Occidentalism, (primitive) periphery.

Code [ID]:

CP199702V00S01A0003 [0004546]


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