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M/Othering Europe

Or How Europe and Atlas Are Balancing on the Prime Meridian, She Carrying the Alphabet, He Shouldering the Globe They Are Walking On

European Media and Culture, Bauhausstrasse 11, 99423 Weimar, Germany,sonja.neef{at}medien.uni-weimar.de

This article questions the notion of European identity and shows how the concept of translation is the basic principle of Europe. As a mythological figure, Europe was — literally — `translated' from the Orient to the Occident by a divine bull. The author demonstrates how Europe is conceived of as a performative that produces intermedial transcriptions in three ways: mythographically, in the version of the Epyllion by Moschos; cartographically, with respect to the prime meridian; and graphically, based on the frescos by Tiepolo in the grand staircase of the Prince-Archbishop's palace in Würzburg, Germany.

Key Words: cartography • difference • Europe • intermediality • mother • mother tongue • mythography • Othering • zero longitude

Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 6, No. 1, 58-76 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1470412907075069


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