The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination (Suny Series in National Identities) [Hardcover]

Laszlo Kurti (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2001 | Series: Suny Series in National Identities

Explores how Transylvania figures in the Hungarian imagination and how this border region functions in the creation of national identity.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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From the Back Cover

The Remote Borderland explores the significance of the contested region of Transylvania to the creation of Hungarian national identity. Author LaŒszloŒ Ku¬rti 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

LaŒszloŒ Ku¬rti is professor of Political Science at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. He is the coeditor, with Juliet Langman, of Beyond Borders: Remaking Cultural Identities in the New East and Central Europe. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 259 pages
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791450236
• ISBN-13: 978-0791450239
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,058,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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