Europe and its interior other(s) / edited by Helge Vidar Holm, Sissel Lægreid and Torgeir Skorgen.

"Published with the financial support of the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen"--Title page verso

Introduction: European Nations of Identity and Otherness in Times of Crisis: Present and Past / Helge Vidar Holm, Sissel Lægreid, and Torgeir Skorgen -- Meeting the Other in a Medieval Chivalric Novel / Jorgen Bruhn -- Pilgrims' Progress: Leaving the Old World for the New World, with Robert Cushman -- Resistance to History: Heinrich von Kleist's War Poem "Germania an ihre Kinder" / Michael Grote -- Inventing Tolerance in Europe and Utopia: Inclusion and Exclusion / Torgeir Skorgen -- Queering the Holocaust: Making the Impossible Possible / Zeljka Svrljuga -- Andorran Jews and Other Strangers: Narratives of Identity and Otherness in European Post-War Literature / Sissel Lægreid -- Jewishness as an Expression of the European Other in the Novels of Marguerite Duras / Helge Vidar Holm -- The Boomerang of Imperial Conquest: On Russia's Internal Orientals and the Colonization of One's Own / Lillian Jorunn Helle -- Scenic Landscapes and Dialogic Spaces on the Outskirts of Europe: Arctic Drama and Polar Surrealism in the Arts -- a Cross-disciplinary Approach / Knut Ove Arntzen -- Istanbul's Architecture in Literature -- From Le Corbusier to Orhan Pamuk / Siri Skjold Lexau -- Author's Biographies.

"Making a mental, space-time journey across and beyond Europe's borders--moving from medieval times to the present, from Istanbul to the northernmost tip of Norway--the authors show how the dangerous dynamics of "Othering", estrangement, intolerance and hatred have become an inherent part of the continent's history."--Back cover

Includes bibliographical references.

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