Between Balkanism and Orientalism: British Imaginative

从希腊独立战争（1821年至1829年）开始，一直延续到巴尔干难民危机（2015年至今），英国与巴尔干半岛的文化接触产生了大量关于该地区的文学/视觉表现。本研究考察了在这些材料中发现的巴尔干穆斯林的矛盾表现，因为，模糊了基督教欧洲和伊斯兰东方之间的对立，它们与天方夜谭的异国情调（Trevor, 1913: 78）和欧洲熟悉（Glenny, 1996: 139）联系在一起。它强调了欧洲文化/政治因素如何改变巴尔干穆斯林的形象，从而说明了欧洲不断变化的地缘文化边界，并询问了这些表征支持的政治/经济利益。

British cultural engagement with the Balkans, initiated by the Greek War of Independence (1821-29) and continuing to the Balkan route refugee crisis (2015-present), has produced a corpus of literary/visual representations of the region. This study examines contradictory representations of Balkan Muslims found within these materials, as, blurring the opposition between Christian Europe and the Islamic Orient, they were associated with both the exoticism of Arabian Nights (Trevor, 1913: 78) and European familiarity (Glenny, 1996: 139). It highlights how European cultural/political factors altered images of Balkan Muslims, thus illustrating Europe's shifting geo-cultural boundaries, and asks what political/economic interests these representations support.