INDOCHINA’S DEADLY SUN The Polish Maritime and Colonial League’s Depictions of Southeast Asia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. INTRODUCTORY (DIS)ORIENTATION A Czech’s View from Singapore 1
5. THE DUTCH EAST INDIES IN THE EYES OF A POLE Teodor Anzelm Dzwonkowski and His Memoirs of Service in the Dutch Navy in the Years 1788–1793 37
6. CZECH ARMY DOCTOR IN SUMATRA Native Soil, Miasmatic Mud, Russian Hallucinations, All the Empires 59
7. THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SINGAPORE IN SERBIAN LITERATURE 93
8. JULIAN FAŁAT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Hybridity and Mimicry in the Memoirs of a Polish/ Kakanian/European Painter 109
9. COLONIALISM, FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND POLISH AMBIGUITY How Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski and Bronisław Piłsudski (Almost) Met in Singapore 125
10. THE FATE OF THE BIRDS OF PARADISE Enrique Stanko Vráz in Southeast Asia 149
11. ETHNIC COMPARISONS IN TRAVELOGUES ABOUT SOUTHEAST ASIA BY POLES AND SERBS OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN BACKGROUND, 1869–1914 173
12. THE POLISH BOTANIST MARIAN RACIBORSKI AND HIS 1901 WAYANG KULIT PERFORMANCE Images and Encounters 193
13. THE IDENTITY OF THE STRANGE The (Post)colonial Perspective in the Texts and Pictures of László Székely 215
14. ISLANDS OF PARADISE? JAVA AND BALI THROUGH AWOMAN’S EYES The Journey of Ilona Zboray 243
15. INDOCHINA’S DEADLY SUN The Polish Maritime and Colonial League’s Depictions of Southeast Asia 263
16. CZECHOSLOVAKS IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYA BEFORE AND DURING WORLD WAR II 289
17. COLONIALISM MEETS EMPATHY AND INSIGHTFULNESS Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s Travel Diary to Burma 311
18. DOUBLE VISION Yugoslav Travelers and the Conflicting Images of Southeast Asia in the Era of Late Colonialism 329
19. CONTRIBUTORS 353
20. Index 357