National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-43455-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

Reihe: Studia Imagologica

The articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of a global modernity. Recently, this discourse of Othering and national stereotyping has gained fresh political virulence as a result of the rise of “Identity Politics”. What is more, this newly politicized self/other discourse has affected Europe itself as that continent has been weathering a series of economic and political crises in recent years. The present volume traces the conjunction between cultural and literary traditions and contemporary ideologies during the crisis of European multilateralism.

Contributors: Aelita Ambruleviciute, Jürgen Barkhoff, Stefan Berger, Zrinka Blaževic, Daniel Carey, Ana María Fraile, Wulf Kansteiner, Joep Leerssen, Hercules Millas, Zenonas Norkus, Aidan O’Malley, Raúl Sánchez Prieto, Karel Šima, Luc Van Doorslaer,Ruth Wodak

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barkhoff, Jürgen

Leerssen, Joep

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Jürgen Barkhoff and Joep Leerssen

PART 1: History and Identity Politics

1 Confronting the Other/Perceiving the Self

National Historiographies and National Stereotypes in Twentieth-Century Europe

Stefan Berger

2 Claiming a Great Ancient Imperial Past as an Identity Element of a Small Modern Nation

The Case of Lithuania

Zenonas Norkus and Aelita Ambruleviit

3 The Longue durée of Brexit

Politics, Literature and the British Past

Daniel Carey

PART 2: Identity Politics of the Neo-Right

4 From Identity Politics to the Identitarian Movement

The Europeanisation of Cultural Stereotypes?

Karel Šima

5 Re/nationalising EU-rope

National Identities, Right-Wing Populism, and Border- and Body-Politics

Ruth Wodak

PART 3: Strategies of Othering

6 The Camp and the Home

Europe as Myth and Metaphor

Joep Leerssen

7 The EU and the East-West Paradox

The Case of Greece and Turkey

Hercules Millas

8 The Image of the Wall

The Antemurale Christianitatis Myth from an Imagological ­Perspective

Zrinka Blaževi

PART 4: Stereotyping in the Media

9 Prime Time Nationalism

Patterns of Prejudice in tv Crime Fiction

Wulf Kansteiner

10 Stereotyping by Default in Media Transfer

Luc van Doorslaer

11 The Image of Spain in the Eyes of Austrian, Flemish, French, Italian, Polish and Bulgarian Facebook Users

Text-Linguistic Opinion-Mining for Detecting and Analysing National Stereotypes

Raúl Sánchez Prieto

PART 5: The Economic Crisis in Literature

12 Resilient Stereotypes in Recent Crisis Novels from Spain

Ana María Fraile

13 Virtually There

Spectral Ireland and European Stereotypes in the Novels of Paul Murray

Aidan O’Malley

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jürgen Barkhoff is Professor of German and Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer of the University of Dublin. His main research is on literary anthropology, question of identity in Europe and Swiss literature.

Joep Leerssen is Professor of European Studies at the University of Ansterdam and part-time research professor at the University of Maastricht. His research focuses on national stereotyping and the comparative and cultural history of national thought and national movements in Europe.