The essence and the margin : national identities and collective memories in contemporary European culture / edited by Laura Rorato and Anna Saunders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rorato, Laura.

Saunders, Anna.

Series:

Studia imagologica ; 15.

Studia imagologica ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Group identity--Europe.

Group identity.

National characteristics, European.

Popular culture--Europe.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions – and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary – the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe, which together suggest emerging patterns of identification within contemporary Europe – patterns which may not necessarily amount to a European ‘identity’, but rather to a European ‘mode’ of identification. The chronological structure of the volume demonstrates the increasingly problematic nature of national collective memories and past imaginaries in light of emergent marginal voices and images, and suggests that it is both from beyond and within the national paradigm that new challenges are now reshaping the cultural imaginary of European communities. Focusing on cultural images within film, literature, national narratives and myths, museum exhibitions and architecture, this volume is of interest to a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, and presents an interdisciplinary approach to questions of cultural memory and identity formation.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TOWARDS A EUROPEAN MODE OF CULTURAL IMAGINARY? / Anna Saunders

HISTORY AND FORMS OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN EUROPE: WHY EUROPE CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE BUILT ON HISTORY / Stefan Berger

THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF MINORITY IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THREE ‘HUMAN’ EXHIBITIONS / Sophie Watt

SHORN WOMEN, RUBBLE WOMEN AND MILITARY HEROES: GENDER, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN BRITAIN, FRANCE AND GERMANY, 1944–1948 / Wendy Webster

WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES AND THE NEW NATION: ITALIAN RESISTANCE FILM AND THE REMAKING OF ITALY / Marian Hurley

THE PERSISTENCE OF THE IMAGO-MYTH: BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA / Iulius Hondrila

THE NEW WAVE AND CITATION: SUMMONING A NEW FRENCH SPECTATOR (AND CITIZEN) TO APPEAR / Franck Le Gac

FOR WHOM THE DOMINANT MEMORY TOLLS: THE SUPPRESSION AND RE-EMERGENCE OF REPUBLICAN MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN SPAIN / Lorraine Ryan

‘THINGS WE POSSESS’: THE PAST LIVES ON IN THE PRESENT. RECENT FICTION BY ROMANIAN-GERMAN WRITER RICHARD WAGNER / David Rock

LOCATION AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN CRIME NARRATIVE: THE CASE OF MARCELLO FOIS’S CRIME NOVELS / Lucia Rinaldi

‘RESCUING THE GAZE’: SEEING AS REMEMBERING IN GIANNI CELATI’S STRADA PROVINCIALE DELLE ANIME / Laura Rorato

POLITICAL ARCHITECTURE AND THE SEDUCTION OF PLACE: THE FORM OF PARLIAMENTS AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY / Giovanni Rizzoni

SILICON SAXONY:NEWLIFE IN ANOLDCOUNTRY / Joachim Schwend

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-59433-8

9786612594335

90-420-2907-2

1-4416-1338-2

OCLC:

647915085

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042029071 DOI