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The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination

By Laszlo Kurti

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0791450244, 9780791450246
LCC
DR279.92.H8 K87 2001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2737832 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in National Identities
Pages
272\272
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Remote Borderland explores the significance of the contested region of Transylvania to the creation of Hungarian national identity. Author Laszlo Kurti illustrates the process by which European intellectuals, politicians, and artists locate their nation’s territory, embody it with meaning, and reassert its importance at various historical junctures. The book’s discussion of the contested and negotiated nature of nationality in its East Central European setting reveals cultural assumptions profoundly mortgaged to twentieth-century notions of home, nation, state, and people. The Remote Borderland shows that it is not only important to recognize that nations are imagined, but to note how and where they are imagined in order to truly understand the transformation of European societies during the twentieth century.

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