Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Todorova, Marii︠a︡ Nikolaeva.

Publication

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

xxi, 600 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Subjects

• Bulgaria > Historiography
• Revolutionaries > Bulgaria > Biography
• Levski, Vasil Ivanov, 1837-1873 > Death and burial
• Levski, Vasil Ivanov, 1837-1873 > Tomb

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9789639776241 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9639776246 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008037561

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library