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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453903203321

Autore

Todorova Marii͡a Nikolaeva

Titolo

Bones of contention [[electronic resource] ] : the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero / / Maria Todorova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786155211638

978-6-15521-163-8

978-615-5211-63-8

615-5211-63-9

1-283-24813-1

9786613248138

1-4416-0398-0

Descrizione fisica

xxi, 600 p., [16] p. of plates : ill

Disciplina

949.9/015092

B

Soggetti

Revolutionaries - Bulgaria

Electronic books.

Bulgaria Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bones of contention or professionals, dilettantes, and who owns history -- A "social drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences -- From breach to crisis -- No redress, or where are Levski's bones? -- A socialist public sphere? -- "Professionals" and "dilettantes" -- Recognizing the schism or what is worse : bad professionals or good nationalists? -- The apostle of freedom or what makes a hero? -- What is a hero and are heroes born? -- The "making" of Vasil Levski -- A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero -- Contesting the hero -- The literary and visual hypostases of the hero -- From hero for all to dissident and back -- The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski -- The split or how a bicephalous organism functions -- The canonization and its implications -- Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration -- The orchestration of a



grass-roots cultus -- Commemoration, ritual and the sacred -- Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation.