Developing Cultural Identity in the Balkans

Convergence Vs. Divergence

Raymond Detrez, Pieter Plas (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

239 Seiten

2005
European Interuniversity Press (Verlag)
978-90-5201-297-1 (ISBN)

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The fundamental contrast between convergent and divergent tendencies in the development of Balkan cultural identity can be seen as an important determinative both in the contradictory self-images of people in the Balkans and in the often biased perceptions of Balkan societies held by external observers, past and present. In bringing together case studies from such heterogeneous lines of research as linguistics, anthropology, political, literary and cultural history, each presenting insightful analyses of micro- as well as macro-level aspects of identity construction in the Balkans, this collection of essays provides a forum for the elucidation and critical evaluation of an intriguing paradox which continues to characterize the cultural situation in the Balkans and which, moreover, is of undeniable relevance for our understanding of recent political developments. As such, it also provides a window into the actual state of scholarly interest in the rich interdisciplinary field of Balkan studies.
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the international conference «Developing Cultural Identity in the Balkans: Convergence vs. Divergence», organized by the Center for Southeast European Studies at Ghent University on 12 and 13 December 2003 in Ghent.

Contents: Raymond Detrez/Pieter Plas: Introduction: Convergence and Divergence in the Development of Balkan Cultural Identity – Victor A. Friedman: From Orientalism to Democracy and Back Again. Turkish in the Balkans and in Balkan Languages – Christian Voss: Linguistic Divergence and (Re)Convergence within the Macedonian Standard/Dialect Continuum – Tanja Petrovic: The Serbs of Bela Krajina between Local and National Identity – Magdalena Elchinova: Alien by Default. The Identity of the Turks of Bulgaria at Home and in Immigration – Nada Alaica: A Mixing of Cultural Identities. The Croatian Borderlands in the Nineteenth Century – Georgios Plakotos: Christian and Muslim Converts from the Balkans in Early Modern Venice. Patterns of Social and Cultural Mobility and Identities – Julia G. Krivoruchko: A Case of Divergent Convergence. The Cultural Identity of Romaniote Jewry – Bernard Lory: The Bulgarian-Macedonian Divergence. An Attempted Elucidation – Basil C. Gounaris: Constructing and Deconstructing a Common Balkan Past in Nineteenth-Century Greece – Nathalie Clayer: Convergences and Divergences in Nationalism through the Albanian Example – Boyko Penchev: Tsarigrad/Istanbul and the Spatial Construction of Bulgarian National Identity in the 1860s and 1870s.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.12.2005
Reihe/Serie	Europe plurielle ; 34
	Europe plurielle / Multiple Europes ; 34
	Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes ; 34
Verlagsort	Bruxelles
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-5201-297-0 / 9052012970
ISBN-13	978-90-5201-297-1 / 9789052012971
Zustand	Neuware