National Myths (eBook, ePUB)

Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents
Redaktion: Bouchard, Gérard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

National myths are now seriously questioned, if not collapsing, in a number of societies. This collection draws together contributions from international experts to examine the present state of national myths, and their fate in today's rapidly-changing society. Can - or must - nations do without the sort of overarching symbolic configurations that national myths provide? If so, how to re-think the fabrics and the future of our societies?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136221095
• Artikelnr.: 38403480

Autorenporträt

Gérard Bouchard is a Member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Académie des lettres du Québec. He is Professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Trained in sociology and history, he has spent over twenty years conducting empirical, multidisciplinary research in various fields of the social and historical sciences. At the same time, he has headed the BALSAC Project, a computerized population register covering the whole population of Quebec up to the 1960s. He is now doing comparative research on social myths and collective imaginaries, for a Canada Research Chair. He has been awarded a number of prestigious distinctions, including the French Légion d'Honneur.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. List of Contributors. Introduction. 1. The Small Nation
With a Big Dream: Québec National Myths (eighteenth-twentieth centuries) 2.
National Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age: The Case of English Canada 3.
The Myth(s) that Will Not Die: American National Exceptionalism 4. Ethnic
Myths as National Identity in Brazil 5. Understanding Mexico's Master Myth:
A Case for Theory 6. 1066 and All That: Myths of the English 7. Polish
Mythology and the Traps of Messianic Martyrology 8. Myths and National
Identity Choices in Post-Communist Russia 9. Myth and the Postnational
Polity: The Case of the European Union 10. Transforming Myths, Contested
Narratives: The Reshaping of Mnemonic Traditions in Israeli Culture 11. War
Room Stories and the Rainbow Nation: Competing Narratives in Contemporary
South African Literature 12. Gender, Nehanda, and the Myth of Nationhood in
the Making of Zimbabwe 13. War, Myths, and National Identity Formation:
Chinese Attitudes toward Japan 14. Lineages and Lessons (for national myth
formation) of Japan's Postwar National Myths 15. Myths of the Nation,
Cultural Recognition, and Personal Law in India 16. National Myths: An
Overview