Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory

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NYU Press, 2004 - Broj stranica: 374

Balkan Identities brings together historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars all working under the shared conviction that the only way to overcome history is to intimately understand it. The contributors of Balkan Identities focus on historical memory, collective national memory, and the political manipulation of national identities. They refine our understanding of memory and identity in general and explore and assess the significance of particular manifestations of Balkan national identities and national memories in the region.
The essays in Balkan Identities grapple with three major problems: the construction of historical memory, sites of national memory, and the mobilization of national identities. While most essays focus on a single country (e.g. Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Cyprus, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia), they are in dialogue with each other and share an opposition to rigid isolationist identities.
Illuminating and challenging, Balkan Identities demonstrates the ever-changing nature of a troubled and culturally vibrant region.

 

Sadržaj

Nation and Region in Nineteenth
41
Exploring Memory Through Oral History in Turkey
60
Communal Memory and Turkish Cypriot National
77
References for the Construction of Local
103
Conversion to Islam as a Trope in Bulgarian Historiography
129
Constructing
180
Pavlos Melas and Heroic
197
Villains and Symbolic Pollution in the Narratives
233
A CriminalNational Hero? But Who Else? Ivan Čolović
253
PROBLEMS
269
A Long View Costa Carras
294
The Case
327
Textbooks in the 1990s
339
Bulgarian Textbooks of Literary History and
355
Index
366
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O autoru (2004)

Maria Todorova is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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