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Title

Transforming national holidays : identity discourse in the west and south Slavic countries, 1985-2010 / edited by Ljiljana Šarić, Karen Gammelgaard, Kjetil Rå Hauge.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Šarić, Ljiljana.
• Gammelgaard, Karen.
• Hauge, Kjetil Rå, 1945-

Description

xi, 314 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

How do people construct collective identity during profound societal transformations? This volume examines the discursive construction of identity related to important national holidays in nine countries of Central Europe and the Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia. The chapters focus on the decades during which these countries moved from communism towards democracy and a market economy. This transition saw revivals of national values and a new significance of regional and transnational ties, entangled with negotiations of national identity that have been particularly lively in discourse concerning national holidays. The chapters apply discourse analysis in addition to approaches from history, sociology, political science, and anthropology. All of the analyses make use of empirical material in the Slavic languages, including newspaper articles, interviews and other media contributions, sermons, addresses, and speeches by members of the political elite.--

Series Statement

Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture ; v. 47

Uniform Title

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 47.

Subject

• Slavic languages > Political aspects
• Slavs > Ethnic identity
• Discourse analysis > Political aspects > Slavic countries
• Holidays > Slavic countries
• Nationalism > Slavic countries
• Nationalism and literature > Slavic countries
• Sociolinguistics > Slavic countries
• Slavic countries > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Slavic countries > Social life and customs > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-309) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Contributors, pvii-xi; 2. Acknowledgements, pxiii; 3. Preface (by Hauge, Kjetil Ra), p1-4; 4. Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic countries after the fall of communism: Introductory thoughts (by Gammelgaard, Karen), p5-31; 5. Analyses; 6. Chapter 1. Collective memory and media genres: Serbian Statehood Day 2002-2010 (by Saric, Ljiljana), p35-55; 7. Chapter 2. The quest for a proper Bulgarian national holiday (by Hauge, Kjetil Ra), p57-79; 8. Chapter 3. The multiple symbolism of 3 May in Poland after the fall of communism (by Halas, Elzbieta), p81-100; 9. Chapter 4. "Dan skuplji vijeka, " 'A day more precious than a century': Constructing Montenegrin identity by commemorating Independence Day (by Felberg, Tatjana Radanovic), p101-124; 10. Chapter 5. Croatia in search of a national day: Front-page presentations of national-day celebrations, 1988-2005 (by Saric, Ljiljana), p125-148; 11. Chapter 6.^
• Contested pasts, contested red-letter days: Antifascist commemorations and ethnic identities in post-communist Croatia (by Pavlakovic, Vjeran), p149-169; 12. Chapter 7. Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising of 1 August 1944: International relational aspects of commemorative practices (by Ensink, Titus), p171-189; 13. Chapter 8. Ilinden: Linking a Macedonian past, present and future (by Soldic, Marko), p191-212; 14. Chapter 9. Slovak national identity as articulated in the homilies of a religious holiday (by Bielicki, Alexander), p213-229; 15. Chapter 10. The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October: Stability and change in four presidential addresses 1988-2008 (by Gammelgaard, Karen), p231-250; 16. Chapter 11. Disputes over national holidays: Bosnia and Herzegovina 2000-2010 (by Monnesland, Svein), p251-270; 17. Chapter 12. What Europe means for Poland: The front-page coverage of Independence Day in Gazeta Wyborcza 1989-2009 (by Grimstad, Knut Andreas), p271-296; 18. References, p297-309; 19.^
• Appendix A. List of current laws on national holidays in West and South Slavic countries, p311-312; 20. Index, p313-314.

ISBN

• 9789027206381 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9027206384 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9789027272973 (ebk.)
• 9027272972 (ebk.)

LCCN

^^2012034477

OCLC

808930442

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library