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Bones of contention : the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Todorova, Marii︠a︡ Nikolaeva
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Levski, Vasil Ivanov, > 1837-1873 > Death and burial.
Levski, Vasil Ivanov, > 1837-1873 > Tomb.
Revolutionaries > Bulgaria > Biography.
Bulgaria > Historiography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Bones of contention, or, Professionals, dilettantes, and who owns history
  • A "social drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • From breach to crisis
  • No redress, or, Where are Levski's bones?
  • A socialist public sphere?
  • "Professionals" and "dilettantes"
  • Recognizing the schism, or, What is worse : bad professionals or good nationalists?
  • The apostle of freedom, or, What makes a hero?
  • What is a hero and are heroes born?
  • The "making" of Vasil Levski
  • A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero
  • Contesting the hero
  • The literary and visual hypostases of the hero
  • From hero for all to dissident and back
  • The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski
  • The split, or, How a bicephalous organism functions
  • The canonization and its implications
  • Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration
  • The orchestration of a grassroots cultus
  • Commemoration, ritual, and the sacred
  • Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation.