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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Šarić, Ljiljana.

Gammelgaard, Karen.

Hauge, Kjetil Rå, 1945-

Series:

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavic languages--Political aspects.

Slavic languages.

Slavs--Ethnic identity.

Slavs.

Discourse analysis--Political aspects--Slavic countries.

Discourse analysis.

Holidays--Slavic countries.

Holidays.

Nationalism--Slavic countries.

Nationalism.

Nationalism and literature--Slavic countries.

Nationalism and literature.

Sociolinguistics--Slavic countries.

Sociolinguistics.

Slavic countries--Social life and customs--20th century.

Slavic countries.

Slavic countries--Social life and customs--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This chapter examines one of Poland's most influential newspapers, Gazeta Wyborcza, and its front-page coverage of what is arguably the country's most popular national holiday, Independence Day. Specific attention is given to how Gazeta's writers discursively constructed a Polishness compatible with European values, both before and after the country's EU admission. Within the newspaper's Euro-Polish identity project, they reinforced the idea of a common past, present, and future, while introducing a concept of European supranationalism that, however, did not replace but instead served to compl

Contents:

Transforming National Holidays; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Organization of this volume; Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic countries after the fall of co; 1. National holidays as sites of transformation; 2. Terminology; 3. National holidays in official discourse; 4. National holidays and collective memory; 5. Underlying events; 6. Methodologies; Analyses; 1. Collective memory and media genres: Serbian Statehood Day 2002-2010; 1. Introduction and background

2. Collective memory and Serbian Statehood Day 3. Analysis of media texts; 4. Conclusions; Primary sources; 2. The quest for a proper Bulgarian national holiday; 1. Introduction; 2. Day of Bulgaria's Liberation from the Ottoman Yoke, 3 March; 3. Day of Bulgarian Enlightenment and Slavic Literacy, 24 May; 4. Day of Unification, 6 September; 5. Day of Bulgaria's Independence, 22 September; 6. Other dates; 7. Conclusion; Primary sources; 3. The multiple symbolism of 3 May in Poland after the fall of communism; 1. Introduction

2. Using the symbolism of the Constitution of 3 May: Three presidential discourses 3. The spirituality of the nation: Ecclesial 3 May discourse; 4. Conclusion; Primary sources; 4. "Dan skuplji vijeka," 'A day more precious than a century': Constructing Montenegrin identity by; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Theoretical and methodological frameworks; 4. Analyzing Pobjeda's construction of Independence Day; 5. Đukanović's construction of Montenegrin identity in two interviews; 6. To be continued

5. Croatia in search of a national day: Front-page presentations of national-day celebrations, 1988-1. Introduction and background: Underlying events and controversies of national days as state symbol; 2. Analysis: Categories and premises; 3. Concluding remarks; Primary sources; 6. Contested pasts, contested red-letter days: Antifascist commemorations and ethnic identities in p; 1. Introduction; 2. Reconstructing the past: Independent Croatia and the post-communist transition; 3. Parallel commemorations, contested pasts; 4. Nation states and identity in commemorative speeches; 5. Conclusion

Primary sources 7. Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising of 1 August 1944: International relational aspects of commemora; 1. Introduction: 1 August as a key event in Polish history; 2. The development of the commemoration of 1 August in Poland; 3. The international commemorations of the Warsaw Uprising; 4. Concluding remarks; Primary sources; 8. Ilinden: Linking a Macedonian past, present and future; 1. Introduction; 2. A third Ilinden? (1990-1995); 3. Ethnic crisis (2001); 4. Bucharest and beyond (2008 onwards); 5. Conclusion; Primary sources

9. Slovak national identity as articulated in the homilies of a religious holiday

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283895255

1283895250

9789027272973

9027272972

OCLC:

823388427