Transforming National Holidays Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010
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The variety and the relevance of the contents are outstanding [...]. It offers a satisfying state of the art on memory studies on East and South East Europe, and, understandably, it also raises questions for future research.
- Gaetano Dato, University of Trieste, in Journal of Southeastern Europe, Vol. 38:1 (2014),
The case-studies presented in the volume will undoubtedly be valuable to students and scholars interested in the interaction between politics and culture in Central and Southeast Europe. The major strengths of the work as a whole are that it indicates the instability and dynamics of collective identity discourse during the transformation processes in the region and that it convincingly introduces national holidays as a fruitful source to analyse collective self-understanding.
- Pieter Troch, Ghent University, in Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 91.4 (October 2013), pages 942-944.,
It offers an excellent example of detailed understanding by means of discourse analysis of the transformation of national holidays and identities. Deep insights into these historical events and public debates are fully shown in the textual and semiotic analysis.
- Yu Hua, Shanghai International Studies University, in Discourse Studies Vol. 17:3 (2015),
The chapters apply discourse analysis in addition to approaches from history, sociology, political science, and anthropology. All of the analyses make use of empirical material in the Slavic languages, including newspaper articles, interviews and other media contributions, sermons, addresses, and speeches by members of the political elite.