Narrating the nation : representations in history, media and the arts / edited by Stefan Berger, Linas Eriksonas and Andrew Mycock.
"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 vo...
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New York :
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2008.
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| Series: | Making sense of history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : narrating the nation : historiography and other genres / Stefa Berger
- 1. Historical representation, identity, allegiance / Allan Megill
- 2. Drawing the line : "scientific" history between myth-making and myth-breaking / Chris Lorenz
- 3. National histories : prospects for critique and narrative / Mark Bevir
- 4. Fiction as a mediator in national remembrance / Ann Rigney
- 5. The institutionalisation and nationalisation of literature in nineteenth-century Europe / John Neubauer
- 6. Towards the genre of popular national history : Walter Scott after Waterloo / Linas Eriksonas
- 7. Families, phantoms and the discourse of "generations" as a politics of the past : problems of provenance : rejecting and longing for origins / Sigrid Weigel
- 8. Sold globally, remembered locally : Holocaust cinema and the construction of collective identities in Europe and the US / Wulf Kansteiner
- 9. Cannes 1956/1979 : Riviera reflections on nationalism and cinema / Hugo Frey
- 10. From discourse to representation : "Austrian memory" in public space / Heidemarie Uhl
- 11. Personifying the past : national and European history in the fine and applied arts in the age of nationalism / Michael Wintle
- 12. The nation in song / Philip V. Bohlman
- 13. "People's history" in North America : agency, ideology, epistemology / Peter Seixas
- 14. The configuration of Orient and Occident in the global chain of national histories : writing national histories in Northeast Asia / Jie-Hyun Lim.