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National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

Editat de Gérard Bouchard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 apr 2013
National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who today has not heard about the erosion of common values or the undermining of social cohesion? But to efficiently address this issue, do we know enough about the nature and role of myths in modern and postmodern societies?
Against this background, National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents relies on a sample of nations from around the world and seeks to highlight the functioning of national myths, both as representations that make sense of a collectivity, and as socially grounded tools used in a web of power relations. The collection draws together contributions from international experts to examine the present state of national myths, and their fate in today’s rapidly-changing society. Can – or must – nations do without the sort of overarching symbolic configurations that national myths provide? If so, how to rethink the fabrics and the future of our societies?
This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in sociology, national, identity and memory studies, myths, shared beliefs, or collective imaginaries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415631129
ISBN-10: 0415631122
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 8 b/w images, 6 tables and 8 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Acknowledgments.  List of Contributors.  Introduction.  1. The Small Nation With a Big Dream: Québec National Myths (eighteenth–twentieth centuries)  2. National Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age: The Case of English Canada  3. The Myth(s) that Will Not Die: American National Exceptionalism  4. Ethnic Myths as National Identity in Brazil  5. Understanding Mexico’s Master Myth: A Case for Theory  6. 1066 and All That: Myths of the English  7. Polish Mythology and the Traps of Messianic Martyrology  8. Myths and National Identity Choices in Post-Communist Russia  9. Myth and the Postnational Polity: The Case of the European Union  10. Transforming Myths, Contested Narratives: The Reshaping of Mnemonic Traditions in Israeli Culture  11. War Room Stories and the Rainbow Nation: Competing Narratives in Contemporary South African Literature  12. Gender, Nehanda, and the Myth of Nationhood in the Making of Zimbabwe  13. War, Myths, and National Identity Formation: Chinese Attitudes toward Japan  14. Lineages and Lessons (for national myth formation) of Japan’s Postwar National Myths  15. Myths of the Nation, Cultural Recognition, and Personal Law in India  16. National Myths: An Overview

Notă biografică

Gérard Bouchard is a Member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Académie des lettres du Québec. He is Professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Trained in sociology and history, he has spent over twenty years conducting empirical, multidisciplinary research in various fields of the social and historical sciences. At the same time, he has headed the BALSAC Project, a computerized population register covering the whole population of Quebec up to the 1960s. He is now doing comparative research on social myths and collective imaginaries, for a Canada Research Chair. He has been awarded a number of prestigious distinctions, including the French Légion d’Honneur.

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National myths are now seriously questioned, if not collapsing, in a number of societies. This collection draws together contributions from international experts to examine the present state of national myths, and their fate in today’s rapidly-changing society. Can – or must – nations do without the sort of overarching symbolic configurations that national myths provide? If so, how to re-think the fabrics and the future of our societies?