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Note publique d'information : "This book critically examines the origins of today's anti-Islamic rhetoric in Europe
with a specific focus on representations of Turkey. Applying a novel theoretical framework
that understands collective identities as dramaturgical achievements, it shows that
stereotypes of Turks continue to provide an important "Other" against which a supposed
European "Self" is contrasted. The book identifies two competing meta-narratives that
have long vied for the right to define Christendom and later Europe, and argues that
the struggle over these narratives - one tragic, the other comic - have come to a
head in Turkey's current bid for EU membership"--