Belarus - Alternative Visions (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
230
Utgivningsdatum
2020-06-30
Förlag
Routledge
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 15 mm
Vikt
318 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780367583354
Belarus - Alternative Visions (häftad)

Belarus - Alternative Visions

Nation, Memory and Cosmopolitanism

Häftad Engelska, 2020-06-30
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Belarus is often regarded as "Europe's last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus's development, including its likely future development, is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debates and competing narratives surrounding Belarus's identity, revealing a far more diverse picture than the widely accepted monolithic post-Soviet nation. It examines in a range of media including historiography, films and literature how visions of Belarus as a nation have been constructed from the nineteenth century to the present day. It outlines a complex picture of contested myths - the "peasant nation" of the nineteenth century, the devoted Soviet republic of the late twentieth century and the revisionist Belarusian nationalism of the present. The author shows that Belarus is characterized by immense cultural, linguistic and ethnic polyphony, both in its lived history and in its cultural imaginary. The book analyses important examples of writing in and about Belarus, in Belarusian, Polish and Russian, revealing how different modes of rooted cosmopolitanism have been articulated.
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Simon Lewis is a DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Research Fellow in the Institute for Slavonic Studies at the University of Potsdam.

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Introduction: Alternative Visions Part I: Contexts (1800-1991) 1. An Abundant Harvest: the Emergence of Belarusian Memory 2. By Force of Myth: The Making of the Partisan Republic Part II: Texts of Resistance (1956-1991) 3. Memory at War: Un-writing the Partisan Republic 4. Retrofitting Rebellion: Defiance and Laughter as Hybrid Memory Part III: Texts of Renewal (1991-2015) 5. Still Fighting: The Afterlife of the Partisan Republic 6. Divided Legacies: Towards Cosmopolitan Mourning Afterword: On Cosmopolitan Memory