<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></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.

Stranger/Europe

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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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...

Stranger/Europe

Data publikacji: 16 lut 2018

Zakres stron: 7 - 25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0014

Słowa kluczowe
Europe, imagology, stranger, xenophobia, exoticism, self-image, identity

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Stranger/Europe

Data publikacji: 16 lut 2018

Zakres stron: 7 - 25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0014

Słowa kluczoweEurope, imagology, stranger, xenophobia, exoticism, self-image, identity

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
Europe, imagology, stranger, xenophobia, exoticism, self-image, identity