Discourses of Collective Identity
in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945 Vol.
III/2
Modernism
Representations of National Culture
The editors:
Ahmet Ersoy, Boğaziçi University,
Istanbul
Maciej Górny, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Warsaw
Vangelis Kechriotis, Boğaziçi
University, Istanbul
This is the second part of the third volume of the
four-volume
series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting
the most important texts that triggered and shaped the
processes of nation-building in the many countries of
Central and Southeast Europe. The aim 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.”
After the volumes focousing on the late enlightenment
and the emergence of national romanticism, two books
elaborate on the phenomenon of modernism in eastern
Europe. Modernism is conceived as a counterpart to modernity,
the first belonging to the periphery, tha latter to
the developed West.
Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism
in the east-European region. Essays, articles, poems,
or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities
of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures,
f rom the different ideological approaches and finessing
projects of how to create the modern state – liberal,
conservative, socialist and others – to the literary
and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual
and collective identities. They reflect a more sophisticated
and critical stance than in the preceding periods. It
is also shown how minorities are discovered besides
the dominant nations.
Contents
Editorial Note, Chapter I.
Cultural modernization: Institutionalization of “national sciences”; Chapter II.
The “Critical turns”: Subverting the Romantic narratives; Chapter III.
Literary representations of the “national character”; Chapter IV.
Aesthetic modernism and collective identities; Chapter V.
Regionalism, autonomism and the minority identity-building narratives
forthcoming, 2010 September (Europe), October (America)
400 pages
ISBN 978-963-7326-64-6 cloth $50.00 / €37.00 /
£33.00
Discourses
of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast
Europe 1770–1945
Vol. I. Late Enlightenment – Emergence of the
Modern 'National Idea'
Vol.II. National Romanticism – The Formation of
National Movements
Vol.
III/1 Modernism – The Creation of Nation-States
"The collection does an admirable
job of addressing multiple audiences. One could imagine
these texts being used to great effect in an undergraduate
course and, although the contexts would likely be too
dense for students at this level, they would make the
volume well suited to a graduate course. The series
could just as easily be used by scholars well-versed
in the intellectual history of one or more of the areas
represented who are looking to broaden the context of
their understanding." - Slavic and East European
Journal
"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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