Europe and Its Interior Other(s)

Download or read book Europe and Its Interior Other(s) written by Helge Vidar Holm and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were and who are the European other(s), and how have their socio-cultural circumstances been aesthetically expressed and discussed in works of literature and art in European history? Members of the interdisciplinary group of researchers "The Borders of Europe" address these questions in this book and shed new light on the notion of European transnational identity, self-conscience and exclusion. Making a mental, space-time journey across and beyond internal and external borders of Europe - 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.