Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West.

Cover -- UKRAINE, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE WEST -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- INTRODUCTION Ukrainian History in Context -- ONE A Complex History: Ukraine and the Dar al-Islam -- CHAPTER ONE From Abbot Daniel to Count Potocki: Middle East Travel to 1800 -- CHAPTER TWO From the "Emir" to the Metropolitan: Middle East Travel (1800-1914) -- CHAPTER THREE Tatar Slave Raiding and Turkish Captivity in Ukrainian History and Legend -- TWO A People Finds Its Voice: Maksymovych and Shevchenko -- CHAPTER FOUR Maksymovych and the National Awakening -- CHAPTER FIVE Shamil, Shevchenko, and the Chef-d'oeuvre, "The Caucasus": A Poem as Seen from Afar -- THREE From Paris to Verkhivnia and the Sich: The French Connection -- CHAPTER SIX All about Ève: The Realist Balzac's Ukrainian Dreamland -- CHAPTER SEVEN La Guzla, Gogol, and the Cossacks: Prosper Mérimée Looks East -- FOUR Contested Canvases: Rembrandt's Polish Rider and Repin's Satirical Cossacks -- CHAPTER EIGHT Deciphering Rembrandt's Polish Rider -- CHAPTER NINE Message to Mehmed: Repin Creates His Zaporozhian Cossacks -- APPENDIX A Dmitrii E. Mishin on the "Saqaliba" in the Medieval Muslim World -- APPENDIX B "Orientalisms" in Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian -- APPENDIX C Shevchenko and the Muslims -- Notes -- Index.

Drawing together political and cultural history, languages and etymology, and folklore and art history, Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West is an original interdisciplinary study that reintroduces Ukraine's long-overlooked connections beyond Eastern Europe.

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