Narrating the Nation: Representations in History, Media and the Arts

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm. In doing so, they contextualize the European experience in a more global framework by providing comparative perspectives on the national histories in the Far East and North America. As such, they expose the complex variables and diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a nation.

Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 09/01/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780857451736

About the Author

Linas Eriksonas is Project Manager of the EU 6th Framework Programme project SAL ("Society and Lifestyles: Towards Enhancing Social Harmonization through Knowledge of Subcultural Communities"). Previously he was Project Coordinator for the European Science Foundation program "Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe". He is the author of National Heroes and National Identities: Scotland, Norway and Lithuania (Brussels, 2004).