LEADER 04644nam 22005173 450 001 996591270103316 005 20240408121045.0 010 $a963-386-666-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9789633866665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30585670 035 $a(CKB)31110613400041 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30585670 035 $a(DE-B1597)665644 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789633866665 035 $a(OCoLC)1428259244 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931110613400041 100 $a20240401d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEscaping Kakania $eEastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBudapest :$cCentral European University Press,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (375 pages) 311 $a963-386-665-0 327 $aCover -- 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 FA?AT 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 Bronis?aw Pi?sudski (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-Grudzi?ski'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. 330 $aEscaping 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 conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European ?semi-peripheral? (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers? positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience. The travellers moved?as do the chapter authors?between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly ?Eastern,? and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of ?Europe,? ?East,? and East-West distinctions. Both at home and overseas, they navigated among a multiplicity of peoples, ?races,? and empires, Occidents and Orients, fantasies of the Self and the Other, adopting/adapting/mimicking/rejecting colonialist identities and ideologies. They saw both eastern Europe and southeast Asia in a distinctive light, as if through each other?and so will the readers of Escaping Kakania. 606 $aHISTORY / Europe / Eastern$2bisacsh 610 $aEuropean representations of Asia. 610 $aTravel and travel writing. 610 $acolonialism/empire. 610 $aeastern Europe. 610 $asoutheast Asia. 615 7$aHISTORY / Europe / Eastern. 700 $aMrázek$b Jan$01733373 712 02$aOpening the Future$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996591270103316 996 $aEscaping Kakania$94149189 997 $aUNISA