Chapter 5 Present Absences: the East in the Story of a Port Town on the Western Coast of the Black Sea
In: Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations
Author:
Onoriu Colăcel
Onoriu Colăcel
Search for other papers by Onoriu Colăcel in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Search for other papers by Onoriu Colăcel in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Purchase instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):
Abstract
A key trading post of South-Eastern Europe from the late 1860s to WWI, the Porto Franco of Sulina is now the Easternmost settlement of the EU. Sulina’s literature gives insight into Western intervention in the borderlands of Europe. Jean Bart’s novel, Europolis (Adevărul, 1933), and Nick Thorpe’s travel book, The Danube (Yale University Press, 2014), reveal Greater Asia as emerging from below across most narratives of Sulina. Although the Orient is something feared, to be wiped out by Western civilization, the horizontal, bottom-up dimension of the East is firmly rooted in and around the port town of Sulina.