Balkan identities: nation and memory

"Balkan Identities brings together historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars all working under the shared conviction that the only way to come to terms with history is to achieve an intimate understanding of it. The contributors to Balkan Identities focus on historical memory, collective national memory, and the political manipulation of national identities. They refine our understanding of memory and identity in general and explore and assess the significance of particular manifestations of Balkan national identities and national memories in the region."--Jacket.

Introduction : learning memory, remembering identity / Maria Todorova -- National memory as narrative memory : the case of Kosovo / Milica Bakić-Hayden -- Internal colonialism : nation and region in nineteenth-century Greece / Robert Shannan Peckham -- Exploring memory through oral history in Turkey / Leyla Neyzi -- Communal memory and Turkish Cypriot national history : missing links / Nergis Canefe -- Times past : references for the construction of local order in present-day Albania / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers -- Conversoin to Islam as a trope in Bulgarian historiography, fiction and film / Maria Todorova -- Edifices of the past : war memorials and heroes in twentieth-century Romania / Maria Bucur -- The monument in the main city square : constructing and erasing memory in contemporary Croatia / Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin -- Affections of a Greek hero : Pavlos Melas and heroic representations in Greece / Anastasia Karakasidou -- Villains and symbolic pollution in the narratives of nations : the case of Boris Sarafov / Keith Brown -- A criminal-national hero? But who else? / Ivan Čolović -- The uses of tradition and national identity in the Balkans / Diana Mishkova -- Greek identit…