Escaping Kakania : Eastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia

Escaping Kakania Eastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia

Escaping 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 conversati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mrázek, Jan (-)
Autor Corporativo: Opening the Future funder (funder)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest : Central European University Press 2024.
Edición:First edition
Materias:
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
European representations of Asia.
Travel and travel writing.
colonialism/empire.
eastern Europe.
southeast Asia.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009809440006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Front matter
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • INTRODUCTORY (DIS)ORIENTATION: A Czech's View from Singapore
  • THE DUTCH EAST INDIES IN THE EYES OF A POLE: Teodor Anzelm Dzwonkowski and His Memoirs of Service in the Dutch Navy in the Years 1788-1793
  • CZECH ARMY DOCTOR IN SUMATRA: Native Soil, Miasmatic Mud, Russian Hallucinations, All the Empires
  • THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SINGAPORE IN SERBIAN LITERATURE
  • JULIAN FAŁAT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Hybridity and Mimicry in the Memoirs of a Polish/Kakanian/European Painter
  • COLONIALISM, FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND POLISH AMBIGUITY: How Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski and Bronisław Piłsudski (Almost) Met in Singapore
  • THE FATE OF THE BIRDS OF PARADISE: Enrique Stanko Vráz in Southeast Asia
  • ETHNIC COMPARISONS IN TRAVELOGUES ABOUT SOUTHEAST ASIA BY POLES AND SERBS OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN BACKGROUND, 1869-1914
  • THE POLISH BOTANIST MARIAN RACIBORSKIAND HIS 1901 WAYANG KULIT PERFORMANCE: Images and Encounters
  • THE IDENTITY OF THE STRANGE: The (Post)colonial Perspective in the Texts and Pictures of László Székely
  • ISLANDS OF PARADISE? JAVA AND BALI THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYES: The Journey of Ilona Zboray
  • INDOCHINA'S DEADLY SUN: The Polish Maritime and Colonial League's Depictions of Southeast Asia
  • CZECHOSLOVAKS IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYA BEFORE AND DURING WORLD WAR II
  • COLONIALISM MEETS EMPATHY AND INSIGHTFULNESS: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's Travel Diary to Burma
  • DOUBLE VISION: Yugoslav Travelers and the Conflicting Images of Southeast Asia in the Era of Late Colonialism
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Back cover.

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