Batiashvili The Bivocal Nation

Memory and Identity on the Edge of Empire
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-62286-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 195 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood. Its principal purpose is to examine division and polarization as forms of imagining that are configured within culture and framed by history. This is what bivocality signifies—two distinct discursive voices through which nationhood is articulated; voices that are nonetheless grounded in a culturally common symbolic field. The volume offers an ethnographically centered analysis of the ways in which Georgians make use of these voices in critical discourses of nationhood. By illuminating the cultural semantics behind these discourses, Nutsa Batiashvili offers a new constellation of conceptual terms for understanding modern forms of nationalism and nation-building in the marginal or liminal landscapes between the Orient and the Occident.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Batiashvili, Nutsa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: What Kind of Imagined Community? A Community of Voices 
Part I: Voice
2. We, Us, Ourselves and Our Others3. We Were Always United, Except When We Were Not

Part II: Dialogism 
4. Things Coded in Our Genetic Memory 5. Horizons, Margins and Centers of Nation-Making in the 19th Century Georgia
Part III: Memory Game 
6. "It’s a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards"
7. Libri Magni or the Book that will Stop the War 
8. Conclusion: Catch '83: Two Faces of the King and The Bivocal Nation 

Über Autor(innen)

Nutsa Batiashvili is Assistant Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia.