The remote borderland : transylvania in the hungarian imagination / Laszlo Kurti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kürti, László, 1953- author.

Series:

SUNY series in national identities

SUNY series in national identities The remote borderland

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Romania--Transylvania.

Ethnicity.

Hungarians--Romania--Transylvania--Ethnic identity.

Hungarians.

Transylvania (Romania)--Relations--Hungary.

Transylvania (Romania).

Hungary--Relations--Romania--Transylvania.

Hungary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 259 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Remote Borderland explores the significance of the contested region of Transylvania to the creation of Hungarian national identity. Author Laszlo Kurti illustrates the process by which European intellectuals, politicians, and artists locate their nation's territory, embody it with meaning, and reassert its importance at various historical junctures. The book's discussion of the contested and negotiated nature of nationality in its East Central European setting reveals cultural assumptions profoundly mortgaged to twentieth-century notions of home, nation, state, and people. The Remote Borderland shows that it is not only important to recognize that nations are imagined, but to note how and where they are imagined in order to truly understand the transformation of European societies during the twentieth century."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Regions, Identities, and Remote Borderlands

Contesting the Past: The Historical Dimension of the Transylvanian Conflict

Fieldwork on Nationalism: Transylvania in the Ethnographic Imagination

Literary Contests: Populism, Transylvania, and National Identity

Transylvania between the Two Socialist States: Border and Diaspora Identities in the 1970s and 1980s

Youth and Political Action: The Dance-House Movement and Transylvania

Transylvania Reimagined: Democracy, Regionalism, and Post-Communist Identity

Conclusion: New Nations, Identities, and Regionalism in the New Europe.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-254) and index.

ISBN:

9780791490273

0791490270