European University Institute Library

National myths, constructed pasts, contested presents, edited by Gérard Bouchard

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

National myths

bibliography

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edited by Gérard Bouchard

constructed pasts, contested presents

Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Introduction / by Gérard Bouchard -- The small nation with a big dream : Québec national myths (eighteenth-twentieth centuries) / by Gérard Bouchard -- National imaginaries in a globalizing age : the case of English Canada / by Allan Smith -- The myth(s) that will not die : American national exceptionalism / by Ian Tyrrell -- Ethnic myths as national identity in Brazil / by Jeffrey Lesser -- Understanding Mexico's master myth : a case for theory / by Fernando Castaños -- 1066 and all that : myths of the English / by Krishan Kumar -- Polish mythology and the traps of messianic martyrology / by Geneviève Zubrzycki -- Myths and national identity choices in post-communist Russia / by Yitzhak M. Brudny -- Myth and the postnational polity : the case of the European Union / by Vincent Della Sala -- Transforming myths, contested narratives : the reshaping of mnemonic traditions in Israeli culture / by Yael Zerubavel -- War room stories and the rainbow nation : competing narratives in contemporary South African literature / by Monica Popescu -- Gender, nehanda, and the myth of nationhood in the making of Zimbabwe / by Ruramisai Charumbira -- War, myths, and national identity formation : Chinese attitudes toward Japan / by Yinan He -- Lineages and lessons (for national myth formation) of Japan's postwar national myths / by Stephen Vlastos -- Myths of the nation, cultural recognition, and personal law in India / by Narendra Subramanian -- National myths : an overview / by Gérard Bouchard