Balkan variations of Orientalism and Occidentalism
Abstract
Summarizing, the aim of this paper was to provoke scrutinizing in a Balkan context the notions of Orientalism and Occidentalism – two forms of demonizing the Other, coined in the age of Enlightenment, two phenomena that are ambivalent and imported from other cultures. They interact in a curious manner and took critical place in the mythologues of all the nations in the region although in different ways.References
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DASKALOV, R. 1997. Ideas About, and Reactions to Modernization in the Balkans. East European Quarterly, 31, 141-180.
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MAKRIDES, V. N. 1991. Aspects of Greek Orthodox Fundamentalism. Orthodoxes Forum, 5, 49-72.
SAID, E. 1978. Orientalism, London, Routlege & Kegan Rayl.
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ARETOV, Nikolay.
Balkan variations of Orientalism and Occidentalism.
Култура/Culture, [S.l.], n. 3, p. 89-99, sep. 2014.
ISSN 1857-7725.
Available at: <http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/103>. Date accessed: 14 feb. 2026.
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English Articles
Keywords
orientalism, occidentalism, Balkan, Other, demonizing the Other, mental map
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