ISBN:
9783319622866
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
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Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Batiashvili, Nutsa The bivocal nation
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Georgia (Republic)
;
Georgien
;
Nationalismus
;
Nationenbildung
Abstract:
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: What Kind of Imagined Community? A Community of Voices -- Why Bivocal? -- What Kind of Imagined Community? -- What's in This Book? -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Section 1: Voice -- Section Preamble -- References -- Chapter 1: We, Us, Ourselves and Our Others -- "Quo Vadis, Georgia?!" Critical Nationalism and the Stereotypes of National Mentality -- Identity Discourse and the Rise of the Georgian Nationalism -- References -- Chapter 2: We Were Always United, Except When We Were Not: Collective Frameworks of Georgian Memory -- Memory: The Language of Argument -- Textbooks, History, Nation -- Stable Texts and the Unstable Order of the Past -- True Self and Bivocal Identity -- References -- Russian Source -- Section 2: Dialogism -- Section Preamble -- References -- Chapter 3: Things Coded in Our Genetic Memory -- Introduction -- Georgian Mentality and Dialogic Reasoning -- Self and Other -- Memory: The Idiom of Nationhood -- References -- Chapter 4: Horizons, Margins, and Centers of Nation-Making in Nineteenth-Century Georgia -- The View from the Margin -- The Caucasus and Russian Rule -- Backward or Not? "Some Notes and Thoughts on Georgia's History" -- The Frontier Effect and the Making of the Georgian Peoplehood -- Conclusion: Other Colonies, Other Bivocalities -- References -- Section 3: Memory Game -- Section Preamble -- References -- Chapter 5: "It's a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards" -- Textbook Wars and Memory Games -- Reforming Memory, History, Nation -- "Historical Memory": A Looking Glass -- Memory Games and the "Secular Priesthood" -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Libri Magni or the Books that Will Stop the War -- Memories that "Annoy the Enemy" -- Memory Game: The Local Consequences of the Global
Abstract:
Voice, Counter-Voice: Mythic Abstraction and "Realistic" Obstruction -- Memory: Language, Myth, and Metaphor -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Catch 83: Two Faces of the King and the Bivocal Nation -- The King's Two Faces -- Historical Preamble: '83 Georgievsk Traktat -- A Bivocal King and the Russian Dilemma -- Erekle's Window to Europe and His Step toward Russia -- We Didn't Pass Through to Europe, Did We?! -- The Condemned King -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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