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Imagining the Modern: The Cultures of Nationalism in Cyprus

By Rebecca Bryant

Book information

Publisher
I.B.Tauris
Year
2004
ISBN
9780755620753, 9781850434627
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (25870560 bytes)
Pages
\308
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 21:10:37

Description

This book argues that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades. Based on research in both southern and northern Cyprus, the work demonstrates how the conflict emerged through the Cypriot's encounters with modernity under British colonialism, and through a consequent re-imagining of the body politic in a new world in which Cypriots were defined as part of a European periphery. Rebecca Bryant demonstrates how Muslims and Christians were transformed into Turks and Greeks, and what it meant epistemologically, ontollogically and politically when they were.

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