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Bones of Contention : The living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero /
This book is about documenting and analyzing the living archive around the figure of Vasil Levski (1837-1873), arguably the major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The processes described, although with a chronological depth of almost two centuries, are still very much in...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Central European University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bones of contention or professionals, dilettantes, and who owns history
- A "social drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- From breach to crisis
- No redress, or where are Levski's bones?
- A socialist public sphere?
- "Professionals" and "dilettantes"
- Recognizing the schism or what is worse : bad professionals or good nationalists?
- The apostle of freedom or what makes a hero?
- What is a hero and are heroes born?
- The "making" of Vasil Levski
- A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero
- Contesting the hero
- The literary and visual hypostases of the hero
- From hero for all to dissident and back
- The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski
- The split or how a bicephalous organism functions
- The canonization and its implications
- Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration
- The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus
- Commemoration, ritual and the sacred
- Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation.