East sees east: the image of Jews from Islamic countries in the Jewish discourse of interwar Poland

Kozłowska, Magdalena

doi:10.1080/00263206.2017.1378186

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“…Yet at the same time, when they happened to describe lands lying further to the east, they tended to transform into agents of Orientalization by using language and attitudes originally targeted at them to redeem their belonging to Western civilization. 34 In the interwar period, "eastern european Jews were not only on the receiving end of Orientalization, but [. .…”

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Unwillingly Orientalist: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s Travel Diary to Burma as an Example of an Unusual Postcolonial Eastern European Account

Lubina

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2022

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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This article explores Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s largely forgotten travel diary “A Journey to Burma.” It argues that the strategy Herling-Grudziński employed to describe the postcolonial world was a unique one. It did not belong to the “socialist postcolonialism” narrative, nor was it a part of Western orientalist discourse. Herling-Grudziński’s Eastern European past and identity deeply influenced his account. Despite some simplification, he was able to summarize Burmese reality surprisingly accurately. The article claims that Herling-Grudziński’s travelogue represents a new angle to the narrative of the relations between Eastern European people of letters and inhabitants of colonized countries.

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