Inventing Luxembourg : representations of the past, space and language from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 383 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:National cultivation of culture ; v. 1
National cultivation of culture.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11284150
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Other authors / contributors:Péporté, Pit.
ISBN:9789004188815
9004188819
9789004181762
9004181768
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-375) and index.
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Summary:The grand duchy of Luxembourg is a showcase example for the constructed nature of national identities. This book explores this construction process from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing on representations of the past, space and language.
Other form:Print version: Inventing Luxembourg. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004181762
Standard no.:9786612786662
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Narrating the past
  • Introduction. Making sense, producing meaning : time, memory and historical narratives
  • Ch. 1. The master narrative of Luxembourg's history
  • Ch. 2. The dissemination, reception and public use of the national master narrative
  • Ch. 3. Different narratives?
  • pt. 2. Drawing the boundaries
  • Introduction. From border patrol to border patrol stations?
  • Ch. 4. The 'centripetal' discursive strategy : nationalising the territory
  • Ch. 5. The 'centrifugal' discursive strategy : de/renationalising the territory
  • pt. 3. Constructing the language
  • Ch. 6. 'Our German' (1820-1918)
  • Ch. 7. Making Luxembourgish a language.