LEADER 04201nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910817563003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786155211638 010 $a978-6-15521-163-8 010 $a978-615-5211-63-8 010 $a615-5211-63-9 010 $a1-283-24813-1 010 $a9786613248138 010 $a1-4416-0398-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9786155211638 035 $a(CKB)1000000000720071 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113735 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11828168 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113735 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10101889 035 $a(PQKB)10200318 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137277 035 $a(OCoLC)646795887 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21354 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137277 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10275398 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL324813 035 $a(OCoLC)939263380 035 $a(DE-B1597)633480 035 $a(DE-B1597)9786155211638 035 $a(dli)HEB09343 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011663837 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000720071 100 $a20080822d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBones of contention $ethe living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero /$fMaria Todorova 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBudapest ;$aNew York $cCentral European University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (622 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a963-9776-24-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBones 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. 330 $aThis book is about documenting and analyzing the living archive around the figure of Vasil Levski (1837?1873), arguably the major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The processes described, although with a chronological depth of almost two centuries, are still very much in the making, and the living archive expands not only in size but constantly adding surprising new forms. The monograph is a historical study, taking as its narrative focus the life, death and posthumous fate of Levski. By exploring the vicissitudes of his heroicization, glorification, appropriations, reinterpretation, commemoration and, finally, canonization, it seeks to engage in several broad theoretical debates, and provide the basis for subsequent regional comparative research. The analysis of Levski's consecutive and simultaneous appropriations by different social platforms, political parties, secular and religious institutions, ideologies, professional groups, and individuals, demonstrates how boundaries within the framework of the nation are negotiated around accepted national symbols. 606 $aRevolutionaries$zBulgaria$vBiography 607 $aBulgaria$xHistoriography 615 0$aRevolutionaries 676 $a949.9/015092 676 $aB 700 $aTodorova$b Mariia Nikolaeva$00 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817563003321 996 $aBones of contention$91772421 997 $aUNINA