Narrating the Nation : : Representations in History, Media and the Arts /

Narrating the Nation : : Representations in History, Media and the Arts / / ed. by Stefan Berger, Linas Eriksonas, Andrew Mycock.

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A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume,...

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MitwirkendeR:
Berger, Stefan,
Bevir, Mark,
Bohlman, Philip V.,
Eriksonas, Linas,
Frey, Hugo,
Kansteiner, Wulf,
Lim, Jie-Hyun,
Lorenz, Chris,
Megill, Allan,
Neubauer, John,
Rigney, Ann,
Seixas, Peter,
Uhl, Heidemarie,
Weigel, Sigrid,
Wintle, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Berger, Stefan,
Eriksonas, Linas,
Mycock, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Making Sense of History ; 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Narrating the Nation: Historiography and Other Genres
  • Part I. Scientific Approaches to National Narratives
  • 1. Historical Representation, Identity, Allegiance
  • 2. Drawing the Line: ‘Scientific’ History between Myth-making and Myth-breaking
  • 3. National Histories: Prospects for Critique and Narrative
  • Part II. Narrating the Nation as Literature
  • 4. Fiction as a Mediator in National Remembrance
  • 5. The Institutionalisation and Nationalisation of Literature in Nineteenth-century Europe
  • 6. Towards the Genre of Popular National History: Walter Scott after Waterloo
  • 7. Families, Phantoms and the Discourse of ‘Generations’ as a Politics of the Past: Problems of Provenance: Rejecting and Longing for Origins
  • Part III: Narrating the Nation as Film
  • 8. Sold Globally – Remembered Locally: Holocaust Cinema and the Construction of Collective Identities in Europe and the US
  • 9. Cannes 1956/1979: Riviera Reflections on Nationalism and Cinema
  • Part IV: Narrating the Nation as Art and Music
  • 10. From Discourse to Representation: ‘Austrian Memory’ in Public Space
  • 11. Personifying the Past: National and European History in the Fine and Applied Arts in the Age of Nationalism
  • 12. The Nation in Song
  • Part V: Non-European Perspectives on Nation and Narration
  • 13. ‘People’s History’ in North America: Agency, Ideology, Epistemology
  • 14. The Configuration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories: Writing National Histories in Northeast Asia
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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