Narrating the Nation: Representations in History, Media and the Arts (Making Sense of History Book 11)

"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."--Book jacket Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Narrating the Nation: Historiography and Other Genres Part I. Scientific Approaches to National Narratives 1. Historical Representation, Identity, Allegiance 2. Drawing the Line: ‘Scientific’ History between Myth-making and Myth-breaking 3. National Histories: Prospects for Critique and Narrative Part II. Narrating the Nation as Literature 4. Fiction as a Mediator in National Remembrance 5. The Institutionalisation and Nationalisation of Literature in Nineteenth-century Europe 6. Towards the Genre of Popular National History: Walter Scott after Waterloo 7. Families, Phantoms and the Discourse of ‘Generations’ as a Politics of the Past: Problems of Provenance: Rejecting and Longing for Origins 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 9. Cannes 1956/1979: Riviera Reflections on Nationalism and Cinema Part IV: Narrating the Nation as Art and Music 10. From Discourse to Representation: ‘Austrian Memory’ in Public Space 11. Personifying the Past: National and European History in the Fine and Applied Arts in the Age of Nationalism 12. The Nation in Song Part V: Non-European Perspectives on Nation and Narration 13. ‘People’s History’ in North America: Agency, Ideology, Epistemology 14. The Configuration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories: Writing National Histories in Northeast Asia Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index