Balkan identities : nation and memory /

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Imprint:New York : New York University Press, 2004.
Description:x, 374 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5156247
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Other authors / contributors:Todorova, Mariia͡ Nikolaeva.
ISBN:0814782795 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Learning Memory, Remembering Identity / Maria Todorova
  • Pt. I. Creating Historical Memory: Individual, Local and National Identities
  • National Memory as Narrative Memory: The Case of Kosovo / Milica Bakic-Hayden
  • Internal Colonialism: Nation and Region in Nineteenth-century Greece / Robert Shannan Peckham
  • Exploring Memory Through Oral History in Turkey / Leyla Neyzi
  • Communal Memory and Turkish Cypriot National History: Missing Links / Nergis Canefe
  • Times Past: References for the Construction of Local Order in Present-day Albania / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
  • Conversion to Islam as a Trope in Bulgarian Historiography, Fiction and Film / Maria Todorova
  • Pt. II. The Masonry of National Memory: Monuments, Heroes, Anti-Heroes
  • Edifices of the Past: War Memorials and Heroes in Twentieth-century Romania / Maria Bucur
  • The Monument in the Main City Square: Constructing and Erasing Memory in Contemporary Croatia / Dunja Rihtman-Augustin
  • Affections of a Greek Hero: Pavlos Melas and Heroic Representations in Greece / Anastasia Karakasidou
  • Villains and Symbolic Pollution in the Narratives of Nations: The Case of Boris Sarafov / Keith Brown
  • A Criminal-National Hero? But Who Else? / Ivan Colovic
  • Pt. III. National Identity: Problems of Transmission and Mobilisation
  • The Uses of Tradition and National Identity in the Balkans / Diana Mishkova
  • Greek Identity: A Long View / Costa Carras
  • Construction of Historical Consciousness: The Case of Serbian History Textbooks / Dubravka Stojanovic
  • Memory in Romanian History: Textbooks in the 1990s / Mirela-Luminita Murgescu
  • Bulgarian Textbooks of Literary History and the Construction of National Identity / Alexander Kiossev.