Post-Ottoman topologies : the presence of the past in the era of the nation-state / edited by Nicolas Argenti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Argenti, Nicolas, editor.

Series:

Studies in social analysis ; 8.

Studies in social analysis ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Balkan Peninsula.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 151 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2019]

Summary:

How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that succeeded it? With contributions focussing on several of the nation-states whose peoples once were united under the aegis of Ottoman suzerainty, this volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time. Developing the concept of topology, contributors explore collective memories of Ottoman identity and post-Ottoman state formation in a contemporary epoch that, echoing late modernity, we might term “late nationalism”.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State

Chapter 1 Fossilized Futures: Topologies and Topographies of Crisis Experience in Central Greece

Chapter 2 Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina

Chapter 3 Surviving Hrant Dink: Carnal Mourning under the Specter of Senselessness

Chapter 4 The Material Life of War at the Greek Border

Chapter 5 (Re)sounding Histories: On the Temporalities of the Media Event

Chapter 6 Between Dreams and Traces: Memory, Temporality, and the Production of Sainthood in Lesbos

Chapter 7 Eyes Shut, Muted Voices” Narrating and Temporalizing the Post–Civil War Era through a Monument

Chapter 8 Uncanny History: Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman World

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-425-9

1-78920-241-8

OCLC:

1089871621