East Is Always Further East
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12148491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Paloff (0000-0001-8461-2431, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 687-692 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | East European Politics and Societies and Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-3254 • E-ISSN: 1533-8371 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0888325414554697 |
| OpenAlex | W2316482214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article comments on the problematic uses of East–West rhetoric in Anglo-American academia, literary culture, and popular media more generally. Of special interest to the author is how the cultural cachet of an Eastern European origin offered émigré writers a readymade audience in the last decades of the Cold War, and how these same writers then used this attention to redefine Eastern Europe, and in such a way that would exclude them from it. Rather than rehearse well-established critiques of the East–West binary, the article suggests several ways in which both scholarly and popular discourses continue to rely on it, though often in ways that call even our disciplinary boundaries into question
Cold war · Discipline · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |