The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselves into future empires (as with the Greek “Great Idea” and the Serbian “Načertaniye”). By examining the interaction between these two aspirations this volume sheds light on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms.
With a balance between historical and literary contributions, the focus is on the ideological hybridity of the new national identities and on the effects of “imperial nationalisms” on the emerging Balkan nationalisms. The authors of the twelve essays reveal the relation between empire and nation-state, proceeding from the observation that many of the new nation-states acquired some imperial features and behaved as empires. This original and stimulating approach reveals the imperialistic nature of so-called ethnic or cultural nationalism.
- Cover
- Front matter
- Contents
- Dimitris Stamatopoulos: Introduction
- PART I. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRES
- Dimitris Stamatopoulos: Prelates Weeping on Demand, Prelates Nationalists, Prelates Janissaries: Instrumentalist Discourses and Power Entanglements of the Christian Orthodox Clerical Elites in the Late Ottoman Empire
- Fujinami Nobuyoshi: Hellenizing the Empire Through Historiography: Pavlos Karolidis and Greek Historical Writing in the Late Ottoman Empire
- Ariadni Moutafidou: International Crisis and Empire: Muslim and Jewish Solidarity with the Ottoman Imperial Ideal in the Greek-Ottoman War of 1897
- PART II. THE BALKAN EMPIRES
- Bogdan Trifunović: Dreaming of an Empire: Discourse Analysis of Serbian Poetry at the Beginning of the 20th Century
- Nikolay Aretov: An Attractive Enemy: The Conquest of Constantinople in Bulgarian Imagery
- Naoum Kaytchev: “Turkish Illyrians” or Bulgarians/Serbs? Ottoman South Slavs Within the Croatian and Bulgarian National Models (1830s–1840s)
- PART III. EASTERN SLAVIC EMPIRES
- Magdalena Zakowska: Russia in Serbian and Bulgarian National Mythologies Until the First World War
- Lora Gerd: Russian View on Balkan Nationalism (1878–1914)
- Liliya Berezhnaya: Imagining the Third Rome and the New Jerusalem in the 16th–18th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- PART IV. OTTOMAN UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
- Maro Kalantzopoulou: Balkan Nationalisms Against the Oriental Empire: Balkan National Poetry and the Disavowal of a Literary System
- Eleonora Naxidou: Differing Perceptions of Ottoman Rule in the Bulgarian Ethnic Narrative of the Revival
- Konstantinos Giakoumis: Against the Imperial Past: The Perception of the Turk and the Greek “Enemy” in the Albanian National Identity-Building Process
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Back cover
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