National Mythologies:

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-42
Author(s):  
Christian Karner
Keyword(s):  
National Mythologies

Eating Like a Local

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-110
Author(s):  
Catherine Keyser
Keyword(s):  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
National Mythologies

Both Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein looked to terroir, the taste of place, to facilitate their transplantation to Europe as expatriate intellectuals. They associate global cosmopolitanism with Jewishness, for good and for ill, and they connect regionalism to race through figures like the Breton, the Basque, and the Abruzzian whose deep roots complicate national mythologies and inspire desire and envy in the deracinated American. By gleaning and mushroom hunting, Stein creates new connections to the terrain and embraces queer pleasures and Jewish embodiment. Drinking and eating with local men who demonstrate both culinary and genealogical belonging lead Hemingway heroes to long for the same connection to home and to recognize their own alienation.

National Mythologies and Ethnic Cleansing: The Expulsion of Czechoslovak Germans in 1945

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eagle Glassheim
Keyword(s):  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Sudeten Germans ◽  
National Mythologies

Beginning in January of 1946, trains filled with Sudeten Germans—forty wagons, thirty passengers per wagon—left Czechoslovakia daily for the American Zone of occupied Germany. By the end of 1946, the Czechoslovak government completed the “organized transfer” of almost 2 million Germans, and it did so in a manner that in many respects fulfilled the mandate of the Potsdam agreement that the resettlement be “orderly and humane.” But a focus on these regularized trainloads of human cargo obscures the extent of the humanitarian disaster facing Germans during the summer months of 1945, immediately after the Nazi capitulation. By the end of 1945, Czech soldiers, security forces, and local militias had already expelled over 700,000 Sudeten Germans to occupied Germany and Austria. As many as 30,000 Germans died on forced marches, in disease-filled concentration camps, in summary executions, and massacres.

scholarly journals The Bandeirantes of Freedom: The Prestes Column and the Myth of Brazil's Interior

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-132
Author(s):  
Jacob Blanc
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Army Officers ◽  
National Mythologies

Abstract The Prestes Column rebellion is among the most mythologized events in modern Brazil: from 1924 to 1927, a group of junior army officers marched nearly 15,000 miles through Brazil's vast interior regions. This Homeric epic into the so-called backlands launched the careers of some of Brazil's most important figures, and for nearly a century it has attained a mythic status in folklore and political history. Seeking to both explain and intervene in this legend, I argue that the myth of the Prestes Column emerged from and remained tethered to the stigmatized image of the interior. As a corrective to the column's dominant narrative and intervening in scholarship on myths more generally, this article reimagines the interior as both a place and an idea. The enduring symbolism of the backlands shows that exclusion, rather than a byproduct of national mythologies, is the pillar on which the ideas of inclusionary myths are based.

scholarly journals Silencing the past, retrotopia, and teaching history

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Józef Burszta
Keyword(s):  
Main Mechanism ◽  
National History ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
Teaching Programs ◽  
Analysis Of Teaching ◽  
National Mythologies

Silencing the past, retrotopia, and teaching historyThe essay analyzes contemporary controversies connected with teaching history in Europe, with particular focus on Poland. It discusses contexts that condition the relation between academic, every day and school narratives about history as it is taught in today’s schools. These contexts are both political and ideological (historical policy), as well as—in a deepersense—are an expression of national mythologies. The main thesis is the following: an analysis of teaching programs in schools tells us much more about the present than the past, and the main mechanism used to build a vision of national history is the notion of silencing the past. In our times, which Zygmunt Bauman has called the retrotopia, history becomes a bastion for nationalism and new tribalism. Uciszanie dziejów, retrotopia i nauczanie historiiArtykuł analizuje współczesne kontrowersje wokół programów nauczania historii w różnych krajach europejskich, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Polski. Wskazany został kontekst różnic między historią akademicką, potoczną świadomością historyczną i szkolnymi narracjami o dziejach. Historia nauczania w szkołach ma zarówno charakter polityczno-ideologiczny, jak i – w szerszym i głębszym sensie – jest wyrazem preferowanych wersji narodowych mitologii. Główna teza tekstu brzmi: analiza programów i sposobów nauczania historii więcej mówi o współczesności niż o historii w tym sensie, że metody i techniki akcentowania lub uciszania pewnych aspektów dziejów pełnią ważną rolę dla budowania określonej wizji tożsamości zbiorowych, dla których legitymizacją jest ideologicznie podbudowana „historia narodowa”. Widać to także w kontekście pojęcia retrotopii Zygmunta Baumana. W ramach tej ostatniej historia staje się głównym bastionem dzisiejszych postaci nacjonalizmu i nowego trybalizmu.

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