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Author Kürti, László

Title The remote borderland : Transylvania in the Hungarian imagination / László Kürti
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in national identities
SUNY series in national identities.
Contents Introduction: Regions, Identities, and Remote Borderlands -- Contesting the Past: The Historical Dimension of the Transylvanian Conflict -- Fieldwork on Nationalism: Transylvania in the Ethnographic Imagination -- Literary Contests: Populism, Transylvania, and National Identity -- Transylvania between the Two Socialist States: Border and Diaspora Identities in the 1970s and 1980s -- Youth and Political Action: The Dance-House Movement and Transylvania -- Transylvania Reimagined: Democracy, Regionalism, and Post-Communist Identity -- Conclusion: New Nations, Identities, and Regionalism in the New Europe
Summary "The Remote Borderland explores the significance of the contested region of Transylvania to the creation of Hungarian national identity. Author Laszlo Kurti illustrates the process by which European intellectuals, politicians, and artists locate their nation's territory, embody it with meaning, and reassert its importance at various historical junctures. The book's discussion of the contested and negotiated nature of nationality in its East Central European setting reveals cultural assumptions profoundly mortgaged to twentieth-century notions of home, nation, state, and people. The Remote Borderland shows that it is not only important to recognize that nations are imagined, but to note how and where they are imagined in order to truly understand the transformation of European societies during the twentieth century."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-254) and index
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Subject Hungarians -- Romania -- Transylvania -- Ethnic identity
Ethnicity -- Romania -- Transylvania
HISTORY -- General.
Ethnicity
Hungarians -- Ethnic identity
International relations
Nationaliteiten.
Regions & Countries - Europe.
History & Archaeology.
Balkan Peninsula.
SUBJECT Hungary -- Relations -- Romania -- Transylvania
Transylvania (Romania) -- Relations -- Hungary
Subject Hungary
Romania -- Transylvania
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001020751
ISBN 0791450236
9780791450239
0791450244
9780791450246
0791490270
9780791490273