Eurocentrism in European history and memory / edited by Marjet Brolsma, Robin de Bruin, and Matthijs Lok.

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Frontmatter -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword / Joep Leerssen -- 1. Introduction / Marjet Brolsma, Robin de Bruin, Matthijs Lok -- PART I. HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY. 2. The past and present of European historiography: between marginalization and functionalization? / Stefan Berger -- 3. The fragmented continent: the invention of European pluralism in history writing from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century / Matthijs Lok -- 4. Eurocentrism in research on mass violence / Uğur Ümit Üngör -- 5. Muslim EuRossocentrism: Ismail Gasprinskii's 'Russian Islam' (1881) / Michael Kemper -- PART II. LITERATURE & ART. 6. David's member, or Eurocentrism and its paintings in the late twentieth century: the example of Vienna / Wolfgang Schmale -- 7. Women walking, women dancing: motion, gender and Eurocentrism / Joep Leerssen -- 8. Shakespeare, England, Europe and Eurocentrism / Ton Hoenselaars -- 9. Being Eurocentric within Europe: nineteenth-century English and Dutch literary historiography and Oriental Spain / Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez -- 10. The elephant on the doorstep?: East European perspectives on Eurocentrism / Alex Drace-Francis -- PART III. EU & MEMORY. 11. A guided tour into the question of Europe / Jan Ifversen -- 12. Constructing the European cultural space: a matter of Eurocentrism? / Claske Vos -- Index.

Summary: Eurocentrism means seeing the world in Europe's terms and through European eyes; while this may not seem so unreasonable to Europeans, this perspective has unforeseen consequences. Eurocentric history implies that scientific modernity has diffused outwards from Europe to the benefit of the rest of the world, through colonialism and later development aid; it involves the imposition of European norms on places and times where they are often quite inappropriate. This book brings together respected scholars from history, literature, art, memory and cultural policy, and from different geographical perspectives, who explore and critically analyse manifestations of Eurocentrism in representations of Europe's past. The collection investigates the role imaginings of the European past since the 18th Century played in the construction of a Europeanist world view and the ways in which 'Europe' was constructed in literature and art.

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"A collection of essays in honour of Michael Wintle." -- dedication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Eurocentrism means seeing the world in Europe's terms and through European eyes; while this may not seem so unreasonable to Europeans, this perspective has unforeseen consequences. Eurocentric history implies that scientific modernity has diffused outwards from Europe to the benefit of the rest of the world, through colonialism and later development aid; it involves the imposition of European norms on places and times where they are often quite inappropriate. This book brings together respected scholars from history, literature, art, memory and cultural policy, and from different geographical perspectives, who explore and critically analyse manifestations of Eurocentrism in representations of Europe's past. The collection investigates the role imaginings of the European past since the 18th Century played in the construction of a Europeanist world view and the ways in which 'Europe' was constructed in literature and art.