Reimagined Communities

Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses

Ryszard Bartnik, Leszek Drong, Liliana Sikorska, Ryszard Bartnik, Leszek Drong, Liliana Sikorska

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9783847116578
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847016571
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Literature

These contributions offer fundamental insights into how literary works address and reconceptualize issues of nationalism, groupism, belonging and denationalization in selected European contexts. Various critical perspectives are employed here to highlight modern social and political processes as registered and, to a certain extent, also fashioned by contemporary literary discourses. 'Reimagined communities' emerge from literary redescriptions of existing or imaginary sociopolitical configurations in several European states or regions. All the contributions share a heightened sensitivity to the individual as enmeshed in oppressive geopolitical circumstances. Thereby, literary expressions of how individuality is constrained by social pressures may offer inspiring blueprints for emancipation.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Ryszard Bartnik / Liliana Sikorska / Leszek Drong: Introduction: Nationalisms as Cultural Artefacts
• Michael McAteer: From Protestant Ireland to Revolutionary Hungary: Nationalism and Transnationalism in Samuel Ferguson
• Pawel Meus: German nationalism in the interwar period from a borderland perspective: Alfred Hein and his interpretation of the national question
• Leszek Drong: Denationalizing Upper Silesia in Szczepan Twardoch's Fiction
• Richard Jorge: Questioning Identities in the Postmodern Nation: Memory, Past and the Self in Claire Keegan's ˋThe Night of the Quicken Trees'
• Frank Ferguson: Writing Around the State: Memory Cultures in Contemporary Northern Irish Writing
• Michaela Marková: The Battles we refuse to fight today become the hardships our children must endure tomorrow: The ethno-political conflict and its legacy in selected contemporary Northern Irish novels for children and YA
• Thierry Robin: Borderline Troubles in Resurrection Man and Breakfast on Pluto: Remembering Northern Ireland before the GFA
• Liliana Sikorska: Vanquishing mirages: nations and nationalisms in Barry Unsworth's The Rage of the Vulture and Orhan Pamuk's Silent House
• Ryszard Bartnik: ˋA writer beyond borders on gross ethics-related negligence': J. M. Coetzee, life-writing and a moral railing against the modern world's maladies
• Bio Notes