| FT-51169-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Roberto Dainotto | Europe in Theory: Cultural Identity and the North-South Divide | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | Roberto | | Dainotto | | | | Duke University | Durham | NC | 27705-4677 | USA | 2003 | Comparative Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
I would use this grant to complete a manuscript on the theorization of European identity. Much has been written on the ways in which Europe--the West--has theorized itself, since the times of the Persian Wars, as a moral and political antithesis to the Orient. My argument is that, by the second half of the Eighteenth Century, a new antithesis between North and South supplements the traditional one of West and East: as Europe starts being defined in self-sufficient terms, colonial Orientalism doubles into an internal, Southernist one. |