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"Orcs" from the East. How the West Shapes the Image of the East. The German Scenario

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What is "East?" A geographic side of the world? A direction that depends on the observer's point of view? A colonial periphery? Who decides these things, and why, in the mouths of the West, does the term 'East' often function as a stigmatizing stigma? This book is a daring challenge. Its author, Dirk Oschmann, Professor of German Literature at the University of Leipzig, has encroached on the holy of holies - the right to interpret history and modernity solely from the point of view of the "victor". Using the examples of West and East Germany, he shatters the benign worldview of the Western intellectual, who is convinced that the East is good only when it is completely similar to the West. In a vividly polemical manner, the author shows that this conflict affects the entire modern world, based on the global fracture of society, the inequality of cultures, long-standing grievances and mutual claims, often manifested today in the most unsightly, radical forms. The book, around which a heated debate is raging in Germany, will undoubtedly resonate with readers.

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