Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023)
Research Article

Merchants, Sorcerers, Fire Worshippers: ‘Snapshots’ of Persian Culture and the Central European Mirror: The Persian Other in the Portrayal of Central European Orientalist Fiction

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  • Márton Pál Iványi
Márton Pál Iványi
Budapest Corvinus University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47075/CEC.2023-2.03

Published 2023-12-15

Keywords

  • Central Europe,
  • critical discourse analysis,
  • Orientalism,
  • history,
  • literature,
  • fiction
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How to Cite

Iványi, Márton Pál. 2023. “Merchants, Sorcerers, Fire Worshippers: ‘Snapshots’ of Persian Culture and the Central European Mirror: The Persian Other in the Portrayal of Central European Orientalist Fiction”. Central European Cultures 3 (2):57-78. https://doi.org/10.47075/CEC.2023-2.03.

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Abstract

Critiques of Western Orientalism have been well-known since the Saidean perspective, and in-depth analysis of Frontier Orientalism has also gained prevalence and academic recognition. Yet, another tendency, namely, that of exoticizing Persia, has not been given wide-ranging attention. This paper delivers a theoretical and empirical framework describing another variant of Central European Orientalism, which may be remotely reminiscent of alleged colonial thought, yet with regional peculiarities and without any direct exposition of historical-political conflict.

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