The book offers readers a cross-section of current research on the concepts of the Self and the Other as documented in the contemporary and historical perception and representation of the three cities Istanbul, Vienna, and Venice. The contributors to this volume are from the UK, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Turkey, and Austria, and they are writing from very different cultural, ideological, scientific, academic and non-academic perspectives and backgrounds.
Veronika Bernard is an Associate Professor with the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria, and a member of the research area Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts.