Inventing Luxembourg [[electronic resource] ] : representations of the past, space and language from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / / by Pit Péporté ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459460503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-78666-0; 9786612786662; 90-04-18881-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 p.)
• Collana: National cultivation of culture ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): PéportéPit
• Disciplina: 949.350072
• Soggetti: Nationalism - Luxembourg; Luxembourgish language; Language policy - Luxembourg; Sociolinguistics - Luxembourg; Electronic books.; Luxembourg Historiography; Luxembourg Boundaries; Luxembourg Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Pt. 1. Narrating the past -- Introduction. Making sense, producing meaning : time, memory and historical narratives -- Ch. 1. The master narrative of Luxembourg's history -- Ch. 2. The dissemination, reception and public use of the national master narrative -- Ch. 3. Different narratives? -- Pt. 2. Drawing the boundaries -- Introduction. From border patrol to border patrol stations? -- Ch. 4. The 'centripetal' discursive strategy : nationalising the territory -- Ch. 5. The 'centrifugal' discursive strategy : de/renationalising the territory -- Pt. 3. Constructing the language -- Ch. 6. 'Our German' (1820-1918) -- Ch. 7. Making Luxembourgish a language.
• Sommario/riassunto: The grand duchy of Luxembourg was created after the Napoleonic Wars, but at the time there was no 'nation' that identified with the ; emergent state. This book analyses how politicians, scholars and artists have initiated and contributed to nation-building processes in Luxembourg since the nineteenth century, processes that – as this book argues – are still ongoing. The focus rests on three types of representations of nationhood: a shared past, a common homeland and a national language. History was written so as to justify the country's political independence. Territorial borders shifted meaning, constantly repositioning the national community. The local dialect – initially considered German variant – was gradually transformed into the 'national language', Luxembourgish.