The Bivocal Nation : Memory and Identity on the Edge of Empire

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Product details:

• ISBN 10:  3319622862
• ISBN 13: 9783319622866
• Author: Nutsa Batiashvili

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.

Table contents:

1. Voice

Part Frontmatter

1. We, Us, Ourselves and Our Others

2. We Were Always United, Except When We Were Not: Collective Frameworks of Georgian Memory

2. Dialogism

Part Frontmatter

3. Things Coded in Our Genetic Memory

4. Horizons, Margins, and Centers of Nation-Making in Nineteenth-Century Georgia

3. Memory Game

Part Frontmatter

5. “It’s a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards”

6. Libri Magni or the Books that Will Stop the War

7. Conclusion: Catch 83: Two Faces of the King and the Bivocal Nation

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