Narrating the Nation

Representations in History, Media and the Arts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Av Stefan Berger, Linas Eriksonas, Andrew Mycock, Stefan Berger Berger

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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, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm. In doing so, they contextualize the European experience in a more global framework by providing comparative perspectives on the national histories in the Far East and North America. As such, they expose the complex variables and diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a nation.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt599 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMaking Sense of History
Antal sidor352
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781845454241

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Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, where he is also Director of the Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence. Between 2003 and 2008 he directed the European Science Foundation Programme on 'Representations of the Past. The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST) He has published widely in the areas of historiography, national identity and labour history.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Narrating the Nation: Historiography and Other GenresStefan BergerPART I: SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO NATIONAL NARRATIVESChapter 1. Historical Representation, Identity, AllegianceAllan MegillChapter 2. Drawing the Line: ‘Scientific’ History between Myth-making and Myth-breakingChris LorenzChapter 3. National Histories: Prospects for Critique and NarrativeMark BevirPART II: NARRATING THE NATION AS LITERATUREChapter 4. Fiction as a Mediator in National RemembranceAnn RigneyChapter 5. The Institutionalisation and Nationalisation of Literature in Nineteenth-century EuropeJohn NeubauerChapter 6. Towards the Genre of Popular National History: Walter Scott after WaterlooLinas EriksonasChapter 7. Families, Phantoms and the Discourse of ‘Generations’ as a Politics of the Past: Problems of Provenance: Rejecting and Longing for OriginsSigrid WeigelPART III: NARRATING THE NATION AS FILMChapter 8. Sold Globally – Remembered Locally: Holocaust Cinema and the Construction of Collective Identities in Europe and the USWulf KansteinerChapter 9. Cannes 1956/1979: Riviera Reflections on Nationalism and CinemaHugo FreyPART IV: NARRATING THE NATION AS ART AND MUSICChapter 10. From Discourse to Representation: ‘Austrian Memory’ in Public SpaceHeidemarie UhlChapter 11. Personifying the Past: National and European History in the Fine and Applied Arts in the Age of NationalismMichael WintleChapter 12. The Nation in SongPhilip V. BohlmanPART V: NON-EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON NATION AND NARRATIONChapter 13. ‘People’s History’ in North America: Agency, Ideology, EpistemologyPeter SeixasChapter 14. The Configuration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories: Writing National Histories in Northeast AsiaJie-Hyun LimNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“…an important, indeed significant, collection of essays that examine the historiography of presenting ‘nationhood.’ There is a shared point of view in the historiographical perspectives of the contributors that warrants the collection being considered as a ‘transitional formulation’ in Jaspers’s sense of the term…[The volume] can thus be seen as a watershed book for our time, opening an avenue for a global historiography of ‘in-common historiographical premises,’ even as it insists on discerning the diverse and complex perspectives that constitute any particular study.” · H-Net Habsburg“The bulk of the analytical essays are well-written, informative and acute in pursuing the theoretical ambitions of the volume…Narrating the Nation is highly interesting and has a lot to offer. It is, at the same time, a focused and many-facetted volume, which everyone can draw inspiration from, both theoretically and thematically. Against this background, the book can be warmly recommended.” · H-Soz-u-Kult