Title: Understanding nationalism : on narrative, cognitive science, and identity /
Authors: Hogan, Patrick Colm
Publisher: Ohio State University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Nationalism Cross-cultural studies.; Nationalism in literature.; Cognition and culture Cross-cultural studies.
Contents: Understanding identity : what it is and what it does -- Hierarchizing identities : techniques of nationalization -- Metaphors and selves : forefathers, roots, and the voice of the people -- Emplotting the nation : the narrative structures of patriotism -- Heroic nationalism and the necessity of war from King David to George W. Bush -- Sacrificial nationalism and its victims : sin and death in Germany and India -- Romantic love and the end of nationalism : Walt Whitman and Emma Goldman.