The bivocal nation : memory and identity on the edge of empire / Nutsa Batiashvili.

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The bivocal nation : memory and identity on the edge of empire / Nutsa Batiashvili.

9783319622866 (electronic book)
3319622862 (electronic book)
9783319622859
3319622854

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, c2018.

English

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10.1007/978-3-319-62286-6 doi

DK672.3

947.58

This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood. Its principal purpose is to examine division and polarization as forms of imagining that are configured within culture and framed by history. This is what bivocality signifies—two distinct discursive voices through which nationhood is articulated; voices that are nonetheless grounded in a culturally common symbolic field. The volume offers an ethnographically centered analysis of the ways in which Georgians make use of these voices in critical discourses of nationhood. By illuminating the cultural semantics behind these discourses, Nutsa Batiashvili offers a new constellation of conceptual terms for understanding modern forms of nationalism and nation-building in the marginal or liminal landscapes between the "Orient" and the "Occident.".

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