Discourses of Collective Identity
in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945
Texts and Commentaries
Late
Enlightenment – Emergence of the Modern 'National
Idea'
Edited by Balázs Trencsényi and
Michal Kopecek
National
Romanticism – The Formation of National Movements
Edited by Balázs Trencsényi and Michal
Kopecek
Modernism
– The Creation of Nation States
Edited by Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny and Vangelis
Kechriotis
Modernism
– Representations of National Culture
Edited by Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny and Vangelis
Kechriotis
Forthcoming:
Anti-Modernism – Radical Revisions
of Collective Identity
Edited by Diana Mishkova and Marius Turda
Editorial Committee: Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Gorny, Vangelis
Kechriotis, Michal Kopecek, Boyan Manchev, Balázs
Trencsényi, Marius Turda
This series, a daring project by CEU Press, presents
the most important texts that triggered and shaped the
processes of nation-building in the many countries of
Central and Southeast Europe. The series brings together
scholars from Austria, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary,
the Republic of Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and
Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey. The editors
have created a new interpretative synthesis that challenges
the self-centered and "isolationist" historical
narratives and educational canons prevalent in the region,
in the spirit of of "coming to terms with the past."
The main aim of the venture is to confront 'mainstream'
and seemingly successful national discourses with each
other, thus creating a space for analyzing those narratives
of identity which became institutionalized as "national
canons." The series will broaden the field of possible
comparisons of the respective national cultures.
Each text is accompanied by a presentation of the author,
and by an analysis of the context in which the respective
text was born.
"The editors hope to overcome two tendencies.
The first tendency is to treat the 'process of creating
national identity in Central and Southeast Europe' as
something exceptional. The editors very much reject
the idea of studying these cultures only in terms of
themselves. However, they also reject any notion of
explaining these cultures by comparing them to an ideal
Western type: 'we sought to abandon the 'Platonic' image
dividing the continent in two ontologically incompatible
worlds: the transcendent world of the Real – the
Occident, and its ontologically inferior imitation –
the Orient, the 'Remainder of Europe'.
The editors of this series very much succeed in their
attempt to get readers to look across national boundaries
when studying the region. The multitude of languages
required by any scholar to pursue cross-cultural comparisons
in the region is no doubt a discouragement to many.
By taking the time to provide the documents in English
translation in one central collection, the editors have
done much to facilitate the breaking down of traditional
boundaries." - Slavic and East European Journal
"This intelligently chosen and extremely
useful anthology provides insight into the
way narratives of national identity were shaped in the
region noted in the book's title.
Items include such richly varied materials as anthems,
songs, constitutions, manifestos, novels, correspondence,
autobiographical materials, and contemporary historical
narratives.
Each item is accompanied by information on the author
and context as well as bibliographical material. Summing
up: Highly recommended. All levels and libraries."
- Choice
"Discourses of Collective Identity
bietet eine eindrucksvolle Lektüre und sei
auch solchen Lesern empfohlen, die sich jenseits der
ostmittel-, südosteuropäischen Area Studies
für Nationalismusforschung interessieren. Für
jene Regionalstudien bedeutet er einen gewichtigen Versuch,
das Feld für eine kritische Ideengeschichte zurückzugewinnen,
nachdem besonders für Südosteuropa ethnologisch-anthropologische,
kultur- und sozialgeschichtliche Fragestellungen in
letzter Zeit eine dominierende Stellung einnehmen."
- H-Soz-u-Kult
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