National symbols, fractured identities
Subtitle: contesting the national narrative
By: Michael E. Geisler, editor
Contributors: Geisler, Michael E
Series: The Middlebury bicentennial series in international studies
Publisher: Middlebury College Press; University Press of New England; UPNE
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Middlebury, Vt; Lebanon, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Emblems, National; Group identity; Nationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what are national symbols, and what do they do to us? / Michael E. Geisler; title: Religion and the secular nation; title: National symbols in Jewish Israel : representation and collective memory / Tamar Mayer; title: Toward an archaeology of national commemorations in the Balkans / Victor Roudometof; title: National symbols and national narratives; title: In the shadow of exceptionalism : Germany's national symbols and public memory after 1989 / Michael E. Geisler; title: Russian symbols : nation, people, ideas / Richard Stites; title: Counter narratives and contestations; title: Lincoln in hell : class and confederate symbols in the American South / W. Scott Poole; title: The gaucho as contested national icon in Argentina / Kathryn Lehman; title: Painting landscapes : the place of murals in the symbolic construction of urban space / Neil Jarman; title: Writing the nation in stone : capital cities and monuments as national symbols; title: "Neither palace nor temple nor tomb" : the Lincoln memorial in the age of commercial reappropriation / Char Roone Miller; title: Sadat's grave and the commemoration of the 1973 war in Egypt / Yoram Meital; title: The making of a national capital : conflicts, contradiction, and contestations in Sri Jayawardhanapura / Nihal Perera