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Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, argues that the diffusion of interpretations in orientalism was not uni-directional, and that the different orientologies, Western, Soviet and Oriental, did not develop in isolation from each other and were interlocked in such a way that a change in any one of them affected the others; and that those being orientalised were active, not passive, players in shaping how views of themselves developed.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era Part 1: Origins and Comparisons 2. Orients Compared: US and Soviet Imaginaries of the Modern Middle East Part 2: Transfers 3. From Tents to Citadels: The Transfer of Oriental Archaeology to Soviet Kazakhstan 4. ‘Ulama’-Orientalists: Madrasa Graduates at the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies 5. "Because of our Commercial Intercourse and Bringing about a Better Understanding Between the Two Peoples": A History of Japanese Studies in the United States Part 3: Competition and Conflict 6. Competing National Orientalisms: The Cases of Belgrade and Sarajevo 7. Propaganda for the East, Scholarship for the West: Soviet Strategies at the 1960 International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow 8. Encouraging Resistance: Paul Henze, the Bennigsen School, and the Crisis of Détente
About the author
Michael Kemper is Professor of Eastern European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Artemy M. Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor in the European Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
