Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction 1. Emotions into History PART I: SAUDADE AND PORTUGUESENESS 2. Proudly Alone? 3. Modernity and Martyrdom PART II: L TOST AND CZECHNESS 4. The Evolution of a Fatalism 5. Culture as Identity PART III: H Z N AND TURKISHNESS 6. Defining Memories 7. Occidental Tourism Conclusion
Synopsis
When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique study focuses on three word-concepts on the periphery of Europe, providing a wide-ranging survey of national identity and cultural essentialism, nostalgia, melancholy and fatalism, the production of memory and the politics of hope.