Russia and Iran in the great game [Texte imprimé] : travelogues and Orientalism / Elena Andreeva

Index

Bibliogr. p. [209]-268

1. Setting the stage -- 2. Orientalism Russian style -- The concept of Orientalism : Western European version -- Russian national identity and Russian Orientalism -- 3. Overview of the Russian travelogues and their authors -- Pre-nineteenth Century Russian travelogues about Iran -- The main features of the Russian travelogues about Iran in the nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries -- The authors of the travelogues -- 4. The travelers' missions in Iran -- Russian military aims and activities in Iran -- Russian diplomacy in Iran -- Russian emigrants in Iran -- Russian trade in Iran -- 5. The travelers' self-representation vis-à-vis the Oriental "other" and the British "self" -- 6. The "travelees" : representation of Iran and her people by the Russian travelers -- "Power of the gaze" -- The "travelees" : manners and morals -- 7. The "travelees" : education, culture and society -- The Iranian army -- Lack of education -- Iranian medicine -- Iranian arts and architecture -- Iran as "a country of ruins" -- 8. Islam as perceived by the Russian travelers -- Mullahs, dervishes and sayyeds -- Shiʼi and Sunni Muslims -- Iranians and "infidels" -- Muslim customs and rituals -- 9. Gender and ethnicity -- Iranian women and prosaic harems -- The travelers' religious and ethnic preferences -- 10. Travelers and travelees : Russians through Iranian eyes as imagined by the travelers (discourse with themselves) -- 'Anti-Romanticism' -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Iran before World War I -- Appendix : travelogues