Nesting Orientalisms at War: World War II and the 'Memory War' in Eastern Europe
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Nesting Orientalisms at War : World War II and the 'Memory War' in Eastern Europe. / Mälksoo, Maria.
Orientalism and War. red. / Tarak Barkawi; Keith Stanski. New York : Columbia University Press, 2013. s. 177-195.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Nesting Orientalisms at War
T2 - World War II and the 'Memory War' in Eastern Europe
AU - Mälksoo, Maria
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This chapter puts cultural constructions informed by Orientalism in the context of the contemporary “memory war” over the meaning and legacy of World War II in Eastern Europe. Drawing on the concept of nesting Orientalisms, the chapter demonstrates how Russia and its former satellites in Eastern Europe (e.g., the Baltic states, Poland, Ukraine) try to depict each other as “less European” in the face of “the West” in order to gain the latter’s recognition of one’s own comparatively “more European” nature. Western readings of these East European memory wars of World War II add another interesting layer of Orientalism to the study, as due to the constitutive role of “the East” for “the West”, these conflicts over memory are culturally and socially productive for Western European identities as well.
AB - This chapter puts cultural constructions informed by Orientalism in the context of the contemporary “memory war” over the meaning and legacy of World War II in Eastern Europe. Drawing on the concept of nesting Orientalisms, the chapter demonstrates how Russia and its former satellites in Eastern Europe (e.g., the Baltic states, Poland, Ukraine) try to depict each other as “less European” in the face of “the West” in order to gain the latter’s recognition of one’s own comparatively “more European” nature. Western readings of these East European memory wars of World War II add another interesting layer of Orientalism to the study, as due to the constitutive role of “the East” for “the West”, these conflicts over memory are culturally and socially productive for Western European identities as well.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Russia
KW - Baltic states
KW - Poland
KW - Ukraine
KW - communist legacy
KW - remembering World War II
KW - memory war
KW - eastern Europe
U2 - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199327782.003.0009
DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199327782.003.0009
M3 - Book chapter
SP - 177
EP - 195
BT - Orientalism and War
A2 - Barkawi, Tarak
A2 - Stanski, Keith
PB - Columbia University Press
CY - New York
ER -
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