Симболичка географија Балкана: гранични простор у енглеским и америчким путописима 1835–1909.
Symbolic Geography of the Balkans: A Border Space in English and American Travelogues 1835–1909

Author(s): Sanja Lazarević Radak
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Representations; the Balkans; border; Orient; Occident; symbolic geography
Summary/Abstract: The inventing of a symbolic map of the Balkans goes back to the 19th century. This is the period in which thousands of accounts, novels and travelogues which represent this part of the world as a border between civilization and non-civilization originated; Europe and Asia were produced, establishing long-term representations. Ambiguity and repetition enabled its permanence. In this paper three key representations of liminal quality are recognized as: the orientalization of the Balkans based on its discursive relation with Africa and Asia; the construction of the „Balkan characters“ as „European, but „non-occidental“, and imagining the Balkans as a border between East and West.

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