Imagology : : the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters : a critical survey / / edited by Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen.

• Superior document: Studia imagologica ; 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Beller, Manfred.; Leerssen, Joseph Th. 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Imagologica 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (476 pages).

How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and national (cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73 contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures and cultures over many centuries; [2] an encyclopedic survey of the stereotypes and characterizations traditionally ascribed to various ethnicities and nationalities; and [3] a conspectus of relevant concepts in various cultural fields and scholarly disciplines. The volume as a whole, as well as each of the articles, has extensive bibliographies for further critical reading. Imagology is intended both for students and for senior scholars, facilitating not only a first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and poetics of national stereotypes, but also a deepening of our understanding and analytical perspective by interdisciplinary and comparative contextualization and extensive cross-referencing.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Perception, image, imagology / Manfred Beller -- Imagology: History and method / Joep Leerssen -- Ethnic images in classical antiquity / Wilfried Nippel -- Medieval peoples imagined / Peter Hoppenbrouwers -- The poetics and anthropology of national character (1500-2000) / Joep Leerssen -- Illustration: Völkertafelor Tableau of Nationalities -- Africa / János Riesz -- America 1: Native North Americans / Sämi Ludwig -- America 2: Native South Americans / Peter Mason -- America 3: United States / Peter Firchow -- Arabs / Joep Leerssen -- Australia / John Stephens -- Austrians / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Manfred Mittermayer -- Balkans / Ivana Živančević-Sekeruš -- Belgium / Tom Verschaffel -- Canada / Martina Seifert -- Caucasus / Michael Kemper -- Celts / Joep Leerssen -- Central Asia / Deliash Balakaeva -- China / Irmy Schweiger -- Creoles / Kathleen Gyssels -- Czechs / Carlos Reijnen and Joep Leerssen -- Danes / Inge Adriansen -- Dutch / Ellen Krol -- English / Menno Spiering -- Finns / Pasi Saukkonen -- French / Ruth Florack -- Germans / Manfred Beller -- Greeks / Gregory Paschalidis -- ‘Gypsies’ / Jean Kommers -- Hungarians / László Marácz -- Iceland / Sumarliði Ísleifsson -- India / Michael Gottlob -- Indochina / Emmanuelle Radar -- Indonesia / Joep Leerssen -- Iran / Natalia Tornesello -- Irish / Joep Leerssen -- Italians / Manfred Beller -- Japan / Ian Littlewood -- Jews / Evelien Gans and Joep Leerssen -- Latin America / José Manuel López de Abiada -- Maghreb / Ieme van der Poel -- Norwegians / Ulrike Spring -- Poles / André Gerrits and Joep Leerssen -- Polynesia / Joep Leerssen -- Portuguese / Simon Kuin -- Romanians / Dennis Deletant -- Russians / Bruno Naarden and Joep Leerssen -- Scots / Murray Pittock -- Serbs / Pavle Sekeruš -- Slavs / Bruno Naarden -- Spaniards / José Manuel López de Abiada -- Swedes / Lutz Rühling -- Swiss / Peter Schnyder and Manfred Beller -- Tibet / Joep Leerssen -- Turkey / Nedret Kuran-Burçoğlu -- Illustration: Eckebrecht’s Nova orbis terrarum of 1630 -- Anthropology / Raymond Corbey -- Barbarian / Manfred Beller -- Body / Elena Agazzi -- Cartography / Michael Wintle -- Centre/periphery / Joep Leerssen -- Character (dramatic) / Ton Hoenselaars -- Character (moral) / Joep Leerssen -- Character (narrative) / Ann Rigney -- Children’s literature / Emer O’Sullivan -- Cinema / Frank Degler -- Cliché / Manfred Beller -- Climate / Manfred Beller -- Colonialism / János Riesz -- Comics / Achim Hölter -- Comparison / Joep Leerssen -- Cosmopolitanism / Peter Goßens -- Discourse / Ann Rigney -- East/West / Manfred Beller -- Encyclopedia / Manfred Beller -- Ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism / Joep Leerssen -- Exoticism / Joep Leerssen -- Foreigner / Corinna Albrecht -- Gender -- Hero / Raul Calzoni -- Honour/shame / Joep Leerssen -- Identity/alterity/hybridity / Joep Leerssen -- Image / Joep Leerssen -- Imagination, imaginary / Stefan Scherer -- Intercultural management / Joep Leerssen -- Irony / Christoph Deupmann.