The remote borderland
Subtitle: Transylvania in the Hungarian imagination
By: László Kürti.
Series: SUNY series in national identities
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Hungarians -- Romania -- Transylvania -- Ethnic identity.; Ethnicity -- Romania -- Transylvania.; Hungary -- Relations -- Romania -- Transylvania.; Transylvania (Romania) -- Relations -- Hungary.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-254) and index.