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: 2011
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9786155053092
Subjects: Death and burial; Historiography; Canonization; Dead; Public opinion; Memory; Tomb; Nationalism; Heroes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. 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: pt. 2. 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: pt. 3. 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.