Quest for a Suitable Past: Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe - Hardcover

 
9789633861363: Quest for a Suitable Past: Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9633861365 ISBN 13: 9789633861363
Verlag: Central European University Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The past may be approached from a variety of directions. A myth provides a sense of direction: it reunites people around certain values and projects and pushes them in one direction or another. The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day. In particular, it focuses on the complex process through which memories are transformed into myths. This problematic interplay between memory and myth-making is analyzed in conjunction with the role of myths in the political and social life of the region. The essays include cases of forging myths about national pre-history, about the endorsement of nation building by means of historiography, and above all, about communist and post-communist mythologies. The studies shed new light on the creation of local and national identities, as well as the legitimization of ideologies through myth-making. Together, the individual contributions show that myths were often instrumental in the vast projects of social and political mobilization during a period which has witnessed, among others, two world wars and the harsh oppression of the communist regimes.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lucian Boia is Professor of History at the University of Bucharest,

Claudia-Florentina Dobre has a doctorate in history from Laval University, Québec (2007). She is currently the director of Centre for Memory and Identity Studies and an associate researcher at the Regional Center of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (CeReFREA), University of Bucharest. She has published extensively on the memory of Romanian communnism and political persecution, museums, monuments, and memorials, and on everyday life under communism.

Cristian Emilian Ghita has a PhD in classics and ancient history from the University of Exeter. His interests include Hellenistic studies, Asia Minor, and ancient warfare, Asiatic mythologies, cultural memory. He is the editor-in-chief of MemoScapes: Romanian Journal of Memory and Identity Studies.



Claudia-Florentina Dobre has a doctorate in history from Laval University, Québec (2007). She is currently the director of Centre for Memory and Identity Studies and an associate researcher at the Regional Center of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (CeReFREA), University of Bucharest. She has published extensively on the memory of Romanian communnism and political persecution, museums, monuments, and memorials, and on everyday life under communism. Cristian Emilian Ghita has a PhD in classics and ancient history from the University of Exeter. His interests include Hellenistic studies, Asia Minor, and ancient warfare, Asiatic mythologies, cultural memory. He is the editor-in-chief of MemoScapes: Romanian Journal of Memory and Identity Studies. Lucian Boia is Professor of History at the University of Bucharest,

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Verlag
Central European University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9633861365
ISBN 13 
9789633861363
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
162
Herausgeber
Dobre Claudia-Florentina, Ghita Cristian Emilian
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