Inventing Luxembourg
Subtitle: representations of the past, space and language from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century
By: by Pit Péporté ... [et al.].
Series: National cultivation of culture -- v. 1
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9789004181762
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Narrating the past; title: Introduction. Making sense, producing meaning : time, memory and historical narratives; title: Ch. 1. The master narrative of Luxembourg's history; title: Ch. 2. The dissemination, reception and public use of the national master narrative; title: Ch. 3. Different narratives?; title: Pt. 2. Drawing the boundaries; title: Introduction. From border patrol to border patrol stations?; title: Ch. 4. The 'centripetal' discursive strategy : nationalising the territory; title: Ch. 5. The 'centrifugal' discursive strategy : de/renationalising the territory; title: Pt. 3. Constructing the language; title: Ch. 6. 'Our German' (1820-1918); title: Ch. 7. Making Luxembourgish a language.