Bones of contention
Subtitle: the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero
By: Maria Todorova.
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9789639776241
Subjects: Levski, Vasil Ivanov, -- 1837-1873 -- Tomb; Levski, Vasil Ivanov, -- 1837-1873 -- Death and burial; Revolutionaries -- Bulgaria -- Biography; Bulgaria -- Historiography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bones of contention or professionals, dilettantes, and who owns history; title: A "social drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; title: From breach to crisis; title: No redress, or where are Levski's bones?; title: A socialist public sphere?; title: "Professionals" and "dilettantes"; title: Recognizing the schism or what is worse : bad professionals or good nationalists?; title: The apostle of freedom or what makes a hero?; title: What is a hero and are heroes born?; title: The "making" of Vasil Levski; title: A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero; title: Contesting the hero; title: The literary and visual hypostases of the hero; title: From hero for all to dissident and back; title: The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski; title: The split or how a bicephalous organism functions; title: The canonization and its implications; title: Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration; title: The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus; title: Commemoration, ritual and the sacred; title: Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation.