Soviet and East European Linguistics

Soviet and East European Linguistics
Author:
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2018-12-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110814625

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School of Europeanness

School of Europeanness
Author: Dace Dzenovska
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501716867

In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe’s political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to profess and institutionalize the value of inclusion. Nowhere, Dzenovska writes, is this tension more glaring than in the former Soviet Republics. Using Latvia as a representative case, School of Europeanness is a historical ethnography of the tolerance work undertaken in that country as part of postsocialist democratization efforts. Dzenovska contends that the collapse of socialism and the resurgence of Latvian nationalism gave this Europe-wide logic new life, simultaneously reproducing and challenging it. Her work makes explicit what is only implied in the 1977 Kraftwerk song, "Europe Endless": hierarchies prevail in European public and political life even as tolerance is touted by politicians and pundits as one of Europe’s chief virtues. School of Europeanness shows how post–Cold War liberalization projects in Latvia contributed to the current crisis of political liberalism in Europe, providing deep ethnographic analysis of the power relations in Latvia and the rest of Europe, and identifying the tension between exclusive polities and inclusive values as foundational of Europe’s political landscape.

New Serial Titles

New Serial Titles
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1048
Release: 1999
Genre: Periodicals
ISBN:

A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Arts and a Nation

Arts and a Nation
Author: Suzanne Pourchier-Plasseraud
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004300287

Focusing on the role of arts in the construction of national identity, Suzanne Pourchier-Plasseraud has chosen to study the case of a country lacking an ancient state history of its own, Latvia. This book analyses the part played by the visual arts in transmuting the cultural concept of a nation, advocated by a small intelligentsia, into a widespread claim for independence. By the end of the 19th century, fretting under Russian political domination and German economic and cultural supremacy, the Latvians turned back to their own language, culture and folklore, with a special interest for their dainas, their timeless common heritage rooted into a mythical golden age. Latvian artists thus found themselves entrusted with the mission of creating a national iconographic representation and a specifically Latvian art, freed from Russian and German influences. The author shows how the links between the cultural and political spheres evolved between 1905 and 1940, including during the period of authoritarian government preceding WWII. An enlightening contribution to understanding how art and history can be turned into social and political instruments, this book reaches far beyond the Latvian case to a European and even global scope.