ルクセンブルク大公国 Inventing Luxembourg : Representations of the Past, Space and Language from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century (National Cultivation of Cultur

Peporte, Pit/ Kmec, Sonja/ Majerus, Benoit/ Margue, Michel

Brill Academic Pub（2010/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 383 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004181762
• DDC分類 949.350072

Full Description

The grand duchy of Luxembourg was created after the Napoleonic Wars, but at the time there was no 'nation' that identified with the emergent state. This book analyses how politicians, scholars and artists have initiated and contributed to nation-building processes in Luxembourg since the nineteenth century, processes that - as this book argues - are still ongoing. The focus rests on three types of representations of nationhood: a shared past, a common homeland and a national language. History was written so as to justify the country's political independence. Territorial borders shifted meaning, constantly repositioning the national community. The local dialect - initially considered German variant - was gradually transformed into the 'national language', Luxembourgish.

Contents

List of Tables and Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Narrating the Past
Introduction: Making Sense, Producing Meaning: Time, Memory and Historical Narratives
1. The Master Narrative of Luxembourg's History
2. The Dissemination, Reception and Public Use of the Master Narrative
3. Different Narratives?
Conclusions

Part II. Drawing the Boundaries
Introduction: From Border Patrol to Border Petrol Stations?
4. The 'Centripetal' Discursive Strategy: Nationalising the Territory
5. The 'Centrifugal' Discursive Strategy: De/Renationalising the Territory
Conclusions

Part III. Constructing the Language
Introduction
6. "Our German" (1820-1918)
7. Making Luxembourgish a Language
Conclusions

Conclusions

Bibliography
Index