{"product_id":"colonial-distance-and-fellow-feeling-eastern-european-travels-in-southeast-asia-9789633866658","title":"Colonial Distance and Fellow Feeling: Eastern European Travels in Southeast Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jan Mrázek\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Central European University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Central European University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Eastern Europe - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEscaping Kakania is about fascinating characters-soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters-who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European \"semi-peripheral\" (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers' positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The travellers moved-as do the chapter authors-between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly \"Eastern,\" and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of \"Europe,\" \"East,\" and East-West distinctions. Both at home and overseas, they navigated among a multiplicity of peoples, \"races,\" and empires, Occidents and Orients, fantasies of the Self and the Other, adopting\/adapting\/mimicking\/rejecting colonialist identities and ideologies. They saw both eastern Europe and southeast Asia in a distinctive light, as if through each other-and so will the readers of Escaping Kakania.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central European University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45046173925527,"sku":"9789633866658","price":11252.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789633866658.webp?v=1767633947","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/colonial-distance-and-fellow-feeling-eastern-european-travels-in-southeast-asia-9789633866658","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}