Research Catalog

Title

Albanian identities : myth and history / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and Bernd J. Fischer, editors.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie.
• Fischer, Bernd J., 1952-

Description

xvii, 238 p. : ill., map; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Albania > Historiography
• Albania > Politics and government
• Nationalism > Albania
• Myth

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Narratives of power : capacities of myth in Albania / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers -- The nature of myth : some theoretical aspects / George Schöpflin -- Invention of a nationalism : myth and amnesia / Piro Misha -- The role of education in the formation of Albanian identity and its myths / Isa Blumi -- Religion and the politics of 'Albanianism' : Naim Frashëri's Bektashi writings / Ger Duijzings -- Myths of Albanian national identity : some key elements, as expressed in the works of Albanian writers in America in the early twentieth century / Noel Malcolm -- Between the glory of a virtual world and the misery of a real world / Fatos Lubonja -- Ismail Kadare's The H-file and the making of the Homeric verse : variations on the works and lives of Milman Parry and Albert Lord / Galia Valtchinova -- Enver Hoxha's role in the development of socialist Albanian myths / M.J. Alex Standish -- The myth of Ali Pasha and the Bektashis : the construction of an 'Albanian Bektashi national history' / Nathalie Clayer -- Perceptions and reality in twentieth-century Albanian military prowess / Bernd J. Fischer -- Smoke without fire? Albania, SOE and the communist 'conspiracy theory' / Roderick Bailey -- 'Shkolla shqipe' and nationhood : Albanians in pursuit of education in the native language in interwar (1918-41) and post-autonomy (1989-98) Kosovo / Denisa Kostovicova -- The perception of the Albanians in Greece in the 1830s and '40s : the role of the press / Elias Skoulidas -- North American Albanian immigration : narratives on political myths / Annie Lafontaine -- Culture and the reinvention of myths in a border area / Gilles de Rapper -- Myths and new forms of governance in Albania / Mariella Pandolfi -- Youth NGOs in Albania : civil society development, local cultural constructions of democracy, and strategies of survival at work / Nicola Mai -- Conspiracy theories in Albanian politics and media / Fabian Schmidt.

Call Number

JFD 03-12444

ISBN

• 0253341892 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253215706 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002068493

OCLC

49663291

Title

Albanian identities : myth and history / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and Bernd J. Fischer, editors.

Imprint

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie.

Fischer, Bernd J., 1952-

Research Call Number

JFD 03-12444