Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 314 Seiten, Gewicht: 730 g
Reihe: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010
Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 314 Seiten, Gewicht: 730 g
Reihe: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
ISBN: 978-90-272-0638-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Kjetil Rå Hauge
Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic countries after the fall of communism: Introductory thoughts
Karen Gammelgaard and Ljiljana Šaric
Analyses
Chapter 1. Collective memory and media genres: Serbian Statehood Day 2002–2010
Ljiljana Šaric
Chapter 2. The quest for a proper Bulgarian national holiday
Kjetil Rå Hauge
Chapter 3. The multiple symbolism of 3 May in Poland after the fall of communism
Elzbieta Halas
Chapter 4. “Dan skuplji vijeka,” ‘A day more precious than a century’: Constructing Montenegrin identity by commemorating Independence Day
Tatjana Radanovic Felberg
Chapter 5. Croatia in search of a national day: Front-page presentations of national-day celebrations, 1988–2005
Ljiljana Šaric
Chapter 6. Contested pasts, contested red-letter days: Antifascist commemorations and ethnic identities in post-communist Croatia
Vjeran Pavlakovic
Chapter 7. Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising of 1 August 1944: International relational aspects of commemorative practices
Titus Ensink and Christoph Sauer
Chapter 8. Ilinden: Linking a Macedonian past, present and future
Marko Soldic
Chapter 9. Slovak national identity as articulated in the homilies of a religious holiday
Alexander Bielicki
Chapter 10. The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October: Stability and change in four presidential addresses 1988–2008
Karen Gammelgaard
Chapter 11. Disputes over national holidays: Bosnia and Herzegovina 2000–2010
Svein Mønnesland
Chapter 12. What Europe means for Poland: The front-page coverage of Independence Day in Gazeta Wyborcza 1989–2009
Knut Andreas Grimstad
References
Appendix A. List of current laws on national holidays in West and South Slavic countries
Index
