Balkan Identities

Maria Todorova is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

"Todorova kept her authors engaged with each other and with the current scholarly literature on memory, history and nationalism. Their efforts to create such a rich and diverse volume must be commended." -American HIstorical Review "Although the essays explore different events from various historical periods in individual countries, the authors are animated by a common denominator: opposition to rigid isolationism, preserving space for a creative dialogue, and opposition to political manipulation of national identities." -Multicultural Review

• The ContributorsIntroduction: Learning Memory, Remembering IdentityMaria Todorova I. CREATING HISTORICAL MEMORY:THE INTERPLAY OF INDIVIDUAL, LOCALAND NATIONAL IDENTITIESNational Memory as Narrative Memory: The Case of KosovoInternal Colonialism: Nation and Region in Nineteenth century GreeceExploring Memory Through Oral History in TurkeyCommunal Memory and Turkish Cypriot National History: Missing LinksTimes Past: References for the Construction of Local Order in Present-day AlbaniaConversions to Islam as a Trope in Bulgarian Historiography, Fiction and FilmII. THE MASONRY OF NATIONAL MEMORY:MONUMENTS, HEROES, ANTI-HEROESEdifices of the Past: War Memorials and Heroes in Twentieth century RomaniaAffections of a Greek Hero: Pavlos Melas and Heroic Representations in GreeceVillains and Symbolic Pollution in the Narratives of Nation: the Case of Boris SarafovA Criminal-National Hero? But who Else?III. NATIONAL IDENTITY: PROBLEMS OFTRANSMISSION AND MOBILISATIONThe Use of Tradition and National Identity in the Development Debates in the BalkansGreek Identity: A Long ViewConstruction of Historical Consciousness: The Case of Serbian History TextbooksMemory in Romanian History: Textbooks in the 1990sBulgarian Textbooks of Literary History and the Construction of National Identity