Strangers in a Strange Land:Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georg

ISBN: 9781936235766 出版年：2011 页码：351 Paul Manning Academic Studies Press

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 re-conquered 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.