Mary C Neuburger

The Orient Within

Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Orient Within" examines the Slavic majority's efforts to conceptualize and manage Turkish and Pomak identities and bodies through gendered dress practices, re-naming of people and places and land reclamation projects. Neuburger shows that the relationship between Muslims and the Bulgarian majority has run the gamut from accommodation to forced removal to total assimilation from 1878, when Bulgaria acquired autonomy from the Ottoman Empire, to 1989 when Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship collapsed. Neuburger subjects the concept of Orientalism to an important critique, showing its relevance and complexity in the Bulgarian context, where national identity and modernity were brokered in the shadow of Western Europe, Russia/USSR and Turkey.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780801441325
• ISBN-10: 0801441323
• Artikelnr.: 21390800

Autorenporträt

Mary C. Neuburger

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
A Note on Transliteration, Translation, and SourcesIntroduction
1. The Bulgarian Figure in the Ottoman Carpet: Untangling Nation from
Empire
2. Muslim Rebirth: Nationalism, Communism, and the Path to 1984
3. Under the Fez and the Foreskin: Modernity and the Mapping of Muslim
Manhood
4. The Citizen behind the Veil: National Imperatives and the Re-dressing of
Muslim Women
5. A Muslim by Any "Other" Name: The Power of Naming and Renaming
6. On What Grounds the Nation?: Parcels of Land and Meaning
ConclusionBibliography
Index