Albanian identities
Subtitle: myth and history
By: Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and Bernd J. Fischer, editors.
Contributors: Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie.; Fischer, Bernd Jürgen, 1952-
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Nationalism -- Albania.; Myth.; Albania -- Historiography.; Albania -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION; title: Narratives of Power: Capacities of Myth in Albania; title: Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers 3; title: The Nature of Myth: Some Theoretical Aspects; title: George Schdpflin 26; title: I. THE HISTORY OF ALBANIAN MYTH PRODUCTION; title: Invention of a Nationalism: Myth and Amnesia; title: Piro Misha 33; title: The Role of Education in the Formation of; title: Albanian Identity and its Myths; title: Isa Blumi 49; title: Religion and the Politics of'Albanianism': Naim Frasheri's Bektashi Writings; title: Ger Duijzings 60; title: Myths of Albanian National Identity: Some Key Elements, as Expressed in the Works of Albanian Writers in America in the Early Twentieth Century; title: Noel Malcolm 70; title: Part II. MYTHS IN COMMUNIST POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE; title: Between the Glory of a Virtual World and the Misery of a Real World; title: Fatos Lubonja 91; title: Ismail Kadare's The H-File and the Making of the Homeric Verse: Variations on the Works and Lives of Milman Parry and Albert Lord; title: Galia Valtchinova 104; title: Enver Hoxha's Role in the Development of Socialist Albanian Myths; title: M.J. Alex Standish 115; title: Part III. NATIONALIST HISTORIOGRAPHY OR FRIENDS, FOES AND HEROES; title: The Myth of Ali Pasha and the Bektashis: The Construction of an 'Albanian Bektashi National History'; title: Nathalie Clayer 127; title: Perceptions and Reality in Twentieth-Century Albanian Military Prowess; title: Bernd J. Fischer 134; title: Smoke Without Fire? Albania, SOE and the Communist; title: 'Conspiracy Theory'; title: Roderick Bailey 143; title: Part IV MYTHS AND CONTESTED BOUNDARIES; title: 'Shkolla Shqipe' and Nationhood: Albanians in Pursuit of Education in the Native Language in Interwar (1918-41) and Post-Autonomy (1989-98) Kosovo; title: Denisa Kostovicova 157; title: The Perception of the Albanians in Greece in the 1830s and '40s: The Role of the Press; title: Elias Skoulidas 172; title: North American Albanian Immigration: Narratives on Political Myths; title: Annie Lafontaine 182; title: Culture and the Reinvention of Myths in a Border Area; title: Gilles de Rapper 190; title: Part V. MYTHS OF DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUTURE; title: Myths and New Forms of Governance in Albania; title: Mariella Pandolfi 203; title: Youth NGOs in Albania: Civil Society Development, Local Cultural Constructions of Democracy, and Strategies of Survival at Work; title: Nicola Mai 215; title: Conspiracy Theories in Albanian Politics and Media; title: Fabian Schmidt 226.