LEADER 03794oam 2200697I 450 001 9910786389103321 005 20230803025855.0 010 $a1-136-22109-3 010 $a0-203-09711-4 010 $a1-136-22110-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203097113 035 $a(CKB)2670000000352990 035 $a(EBL)1181074 035 $a(OCoLC)841809968 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871927 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12382628 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871927 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10824561 035 $a(PQKB)10730882 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181074 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181074 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10691794 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL485272 035 $a(OCoLC)846985708 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134982 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000352990 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNational myths $econstructed pasts, contested presents /$fedited by Gerard Bouchard 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-63112-2 311 $a0-415-52132-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; TitleInformation; TitlePage; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The small nation with a big dream: Que?bec 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 327 $a8 Myths and national identity choices in post-communist Russia9 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 327 $a15 Myths of the nation, cultural recognition, and personal law in India16 National myths: An overview; Index 330 $aNational 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, Co 606 $aNational characteristics 606 $aMythology 606 $aEthnicity 606 $aGroup identity 615 0$aNational characteristics. 615 0$aMythology. 615 0$aEthnicity. 615 0$aGroup identity. 676 $a155.89 701 $aBouchard$b Gerard$f1943-$0567503 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786389103321 996 $aNational myths$93683550 997 $aUNINA