Stranger/Europe
Stranger/Europe
Author(s): Joep LeerssenSubject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Philology
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Europe; imagology; stranger; xenophobia; exoticism; self-image; identity
Summary/Abstract: Drawing on the working methods of imagology, this article surveys the way in which an implicit or tacit European self-image has taken shape over the centuries through contrast with two non-European Others: the New World and the Mediterranean. The article shows how these two others merge into a self-image of European alienation and moral perplexity following the devastations of the Second World War: the European cities have become kasbahs, Europe has become its own Other.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
- Issue Year: 9/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 7-25
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English