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"The Orient Within" examines the Slavic majority's efforts to conceptualize and manage Turkish and Pomak identities and bodies through gendered dress practices, re-naming of people and places and land reclamation projects. Neuburger shows that the relationship between Muslims and the Bulgarian majority has run the gamut from accommodation to forced removal to total assimilation from 1878, when Bulgaria acquired autonomy from the Ottoman Empire, to 1989 when Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship collapsed. Neuburger subjects the concept of Orientalism to an important critique, showing its relevance and complexity in the Bulgarian context, where national identity and modernity were brokered in the shadow of Western Europe, Russia/USSR and Turkey.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Orient Within
• Subtitle: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria
• Author: Neuburger, Mary (Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin, USA)
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780801441325
• ISBN: 9780801441325
• ID: 06272811
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 635 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. January 2004

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