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

Published by Berghahn Books 2008

Narrating the Nation

Representations in History, Media and the Arts

Edited by: Stefan Berger , Linas Eriksonas and Andrew Mycock

Volume 11 in the series Making Sense of History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458652

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About this book

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 / Editor information

Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, where he is also Director of the Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence. Between 2003 and 2008 he directed the European Science Foundation Programme on 'Representations of the Past. The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST) He has published widely in the areas of historiography, national identity and labour history.

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).

Andrew Mycock is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Huddersfield. He was Programme Coordinator for the European Science Foundation project, “Representations of the Past: National History Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”, between 2006 and 2007. His doctoral thesis, currently being prepared for publication, provides a comparative analysis of the construction of post-imperial citizenship and national identity in the Russian Federation and Britain through the introduction of citizenship and history education programs.

Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, where he is also Director of the Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence. Between 2003 and 2008 he directed the European Science Foundation Programme on 'Representations of the Past. The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST) He has published widely in the areas of historiography, national identity and labour history.

Reviews

“…an important, indeed significant, collection of essays that examine the historiography of presenting ‘nationhood.’ There is a shared point of view in the historiographical perspectives of the contributors that warrants the collection being considered as a ‘transitional formulation’ in Jaspers’s sense of the term…[The volume] can thus be seen as a watershed book for our time, opening an avenue for a global historiography of ‘in-common historiographical premises,’ even as it insists on discerning the diverse and complex perspectives that constitute any particular study.” · H-Net Habsburg

“The bulk of the analytical essays are well-written, informative and acute in pursuing the theoretical ambitions of the volume…Narrating the Nation is highly interesting and has a lot to offer. It is, at the same time, a focused and many-facetted volume, which everyone can draw inspiration from, both theoretically and thematically. Against this background, the book can be warmly recommended.” · H-Soz-u-Kult

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Narrating the Nation: Historiography and Other Genres Stefan Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Scientific Approaches to National Narratives
1. Historical Representation, Identity, Allegiance Allan Megill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Drawing the Line: ‘Scientific’ History between Myth-making and Myth-breaking Chris Lorenz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. National Histories: Prospects for Critique and Narrative Mark Bevir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Part II. Narrating the Nation as Literature
4. Fiction as a Mediator in National Remembrance Ann Rigney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. The Institutionalisation and Nationalisation of Literature in Nineteenth-century Europe John Neubauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6. Towards the Genre of Popular National History: Walter Scott after Waterloo Linas Eriksonas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7. Families, Phantoms and the Discourse of ‘Generations’ as a Politics of the Past: Problems of Provenance: Rejecting and Longing for Origins Sigrid Weigel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part III: Narrating the Nation as Film
8. Sold Globally – Remembered Locally: Holocaust Cinema and the Construction of Collective Identities in Europe and the US Wulf Kansteiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9. Cannes 1956/1979: Riviera Reflections on Nationalism and Cinema Hugo Frey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part IV: Narrating the Nation as Art and Music
10. From Discourse to Representation: ‘Austrian Memory’ in Public Space Heidemarie Uhl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
11. Personifying the Past: National and European History in the Fine and Applied Arts in the Age of Nationalism Michael Wintle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
12. The Nation in Song Philip V. Bohlman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Part V: Non-European Perspectives on Nation and Narration
13. ‘People’s History’ in North America: Agency, Ideology, Epistemology Peter Seixas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
14. The Configuration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories: Writing National Histories in Northeast Asia Jie-Hyun Lim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: History (General); Media Studies; Literary Studies; Film and Television Studies

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Published: October 1, 2008
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