By Maria Todorova
Balkan Identities brings jointly historians, anthropologists, and literary students all operating lower than the shared conviction that the single method to triumph over historical past is to in detail realize it. The individuals of Balkan Identities specialise in old reminiscence, collective nationwide reminiscence, and the political manipulation of nationwide identities. They refine our knowing of reminiscence and identification typically and discover and examine the importance of specific manifestations of Balkan nationwide identities and nationwide stories within the region.
The essays in Balkan Identities grapple with 3 significant difficulties: the development of ancient reminiscence, websites of nationwide reminiscence, and the mobilization of nationwide identities. whereas so much essays specialise in a unmarried nation (e.g. Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Cyprus, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia), they're in discussion with one another and percentage an competition to inflexible isolationist identities.
Illuminating and tough, Balkan Identities demonstrates the ever-changing nature of a and culturally shiny region.
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This official city image carries components of, and shares some affinity with, the second spatial realm of the urban landscape, the collective memory of the city, which has durability and is connected to a certain location, but which is also bound to particular groups and particular interests. De Certeau argues that apart from the univocal and totalitarian concept city, memory and legend are crucial for cities: cities are uninhabitable without their legends. It is thus necessary to search for the collective memory of the city in order to grasp how this space becomes meaningful.
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