Bones of contention : the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero / / Maria Todorova.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Todorova, Mariia Nikolaeva.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxi, 600 p., [16] p. of plates :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Bones of contention or professionals, dilettantes, and who owns history
• A "social drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• From breach to crisis
• No redress, or where are Levski's bones?
• A socialist public sphere?
• "Professionals" and "dilettantes"
• Recognizing the schism or what is worse : bad professionals or good nationalists?
• The apostle of freedom or what makes a hero?
• What is a hero and are heroes born?
• The "making" of Vasil Levski
• A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero
• Contesting the hero
• The literary and visual hypostases of the hero
• From hero for all to dissident and back
• The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski
• The split or how a bicephalous organism functions
• The canonization and its implications
• Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration
• The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus
• Commemoration, ritual and the sacred
• Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation.