Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTORY (DIS)ORIENTATION: A Czech's View from Singapore -- THE DUTCH EAST INDIES IN THE EYES OF A POLE: Teodor Anzelm Dzwonkowski and His Memoirs of Service in the Dutch Navy in the Years 1788-1793 -- CZECH ARMY DOCTOR IN SUMATRA: Native Soil, Miasmatic Mud, Russian Hallucinations, All the Empires -- THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SINGAPORE IN SERBIAN LITERATURE -- JULIAN FAŁAT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Hybridity and Mimicry in the Memoirs of a Polish/Kakanian/European Painter -- COLONIALISM, FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND POLISH AMBIGUITY: How Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski and Bronisław Piłsudski (Almost) Met in Singapore -- THE FATE OF THE BIRDS OF PARADISE: Enrique Stanko Vráz in Southeast Asia -- ETHNIC COMPARISONS IN TRAVELOGUES ABOUT SOUTHEAST ASIA BY POLES AND SERBS OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN BACKGROUND, 1869-1914 -- THE POLISH BOTANIST MARIAN RACIBORSKIAND HIS 1901 WAYANG KULIT PERFORMANCE: Images and Encounters -- THE IDENTITY OF THE STRANGE: The (Post)colonial Perspective in the Texts and Pictures of László Székely -- ISLANDS OF PARADISE? JAVA AND BALI THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYES: The Journey of Ilona Zboray -- INDOCHINA'S DEADLY SUN: The Polish Maritime and Colonial League's Depictions of Southeast Asia -- CZECHOSLOVAKS IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYA BEFORE AND DURING WORLD WAR II -- COLONIALISM MEETS EMPATHY AND INSIGHTFULNESS: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's Travel Diary to Burma -- DOUBLE VISION: Yugoslav Travelers and the Conflicting Images of Southeast Asia in the Era of Late Colonialism -- Contributors -- Index -- Back cover.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (375 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789633866665
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=30585670
Language:
English
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