The Romance-Speaking Balkans : Language and the Politics of Identity

The relationship between language and identity is a complex topic everywhere in the world, but maybe it is even more crucial for those people living in the Balkans who speak a Romance variety. This volume is the result of a project started by the Balkan History Association, and brings together scholars trained in social sciences and humanities to offer the reader a thorough sociolinguistic and anthropological account of this region. It constitutes a contribution to a reformulation of methodological and analytical issues, providing a better insight in the linguistic and geopolitical processes taking place in the area. Contributors are Michael Studemund-Halévy, Cătălin Mamali, Anna-Christine Weirich, Ewa Nowicka, Daniela-Carmen Stoica, Mircea Măran, Zvjezdana Vrzić, and Monica Huțanu. Contents Preface Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 From Rashi to Cyrillic: Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo) Texts in Cyrillic • Michael Studemund-Halévy 2 Political Terror and Repressed Aromanian Core Identity: Ways to Re-assert and Develop Ethnolinguistic Identity • Cătălin Mamali 3 Sociolinguistic Relations and Return Migration: Italian in the Republic of Moldova • Anna-Christine Weirich 4 Between Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Familial Memory: Identity Dilemmas among the Eastern Romance Communities of the Balkan Peninsula • Ewa Nowicka 5 Identity Constructions among the Members of the Aromanian Community in the Korçë Area • Daniela-Carmen Stoica 6 Megleno-Romanians in the Serbian Banat: Colonization and Assimilation • Mircea Măran 7 Nation-State Ideology and Identity and Language Rights of Linguistic Minorities: Prospects for the Vlashki/Zheyanski-Speaking Communities • Zvjezdana Vrzić 8 “What Language Do We Speak?” The Bayash in the Balkans and Mother Tongue Education • Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković 9 Performing Vlach-ness Online: The Enregisterment of Vlach • Monica Huțanu Index "The relationship between language and identity is a complex topic everywhere in the world, but maybe it is even more crucial for those people living in the Balkans who speak a Romance variety. This volume is the result of a project started by the Balkan History Association, and brings together scholars trained in social sciences and humanities to offer the reader a thorough sociolinguistic and anthropological account of this region. It constitutes a contribution to a reformulation of methodological and analytical issues, providing a better insight in the linguistic and geopolitical processes taking place in the area. Contributors are Michael Studemund-Halévy, Cătălin Mamali, Anna-Christine Weirich, Ewa Nowicka, Daniela-Carmen Stoica, Mircea Măran, Zvjezdana Vrzić, and Monica Huțanu"-- Provided by publisher