The remote borderland : Transylvania in the Hungarian imagination /
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| Author / Creator: | Kürti, László. |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001. |
| Description: | xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in national identities |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4493567 |
| Summary: | The Remote Borderland explores the significance of the contested region of Transylvania to the creation of Hungarian national identity. Author László Kürti illustrates the process by which European intellectuals, politicians, and artists locate their nation's territory, embody it with meaning, and reassert its importance at various historical junctures. The book's discussion of the contested and negotiated nature of nationality in its East Central European setting reveals cultural assumptions profoundly mortgaged to twentieth-century notions of home, nation, state, and people. The Remote Borderland shows that it is not only important to recognize that nations are imagined, but to note how and where they are imagined in order to truly understand the transformation of European societies during the twentieth century. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0791450236 0791450244 |