scholarly journals National Identity and Politicisation in Fiction up to the Revolution: The Example of the Moral Tale

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Katherine Astbury
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
The Revolution

The Roots and Evolution of Nationalism in Indonesia

Akademika ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Lai Yew Meng ◽  
◽  
Maureen De Silva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Modern History ◽  
State Elite ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Popular Nationalism ◽  
The Revolution

ABSTRACT The emergence of nationalism in Indonesia began at the dawn of the twentieth century, which ultimately led to the birth a new nation-state in 1949. The seeds of national consciousness were sown, and roots of Indonesian nationalism reached its apex during the Revolution (1945-49), manifesting most profoundly in the fight against the oppression of Dutch colonialism. The Revolution was central to the Indonesian republic’s perception of itself and has been influential in fostering nationalism during the post-independence period. This article examines the roots and evolution as well as dynamics and manifestations of Indonesian nationalism, throughout the different phases of Indonesia’s modern history. In doing so, it addresses three salient questions, namely i) how the seeds of national consciousness were sown; ii) what were the underlying factors/dynamics shaping the nature and development of nationalism; and iii) how nationalism and nationhood manifested in a geographically divided, ethno-culturally diverse state like Indonesia, whose citizenry has remained strongly attached to their traditional ethnological and adat communities. Emphasis is given to both stateoriented and popular manifestations of Indonesian nationalism, to highlight the state/elite-centric nature, and populist drive behind its discourses, agenda, and manifestations. Keywords: Indonesia; nationalism; national identity; state nationalism; popular nationalism

The Revolution is Dead. ¡¡Viva la revolucióón!: The Place of the Mexican Revolution in the Era of Globalization

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent T. Gawronski
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Psychological Benefits ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
Logical Sense ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Revolution

Mexicans have long cherished their revolutionary heritage, but where does the Mexican Revolution now reside in collective memory, and does the idea of the Revolution still have any legitimating power? And what has been the relationship between the PRI's long sequence of legitimacy crises and the Mexican Revolution? Until procedural democracy provides significant substantive and psychological benefits, the recent democratic turn will not fully supplant Mexico's traditional sources of legitimacy.While Mexicans generally see the regime as falling short in achieving the basic goals of the Mexican Revolution, there are indications that the Revolution——understood as collective memory, myth, history, and national identity——still holds a place in political discourse and rhetoric, even if such understandings make little logical sense in the era of globalization. Los mexicanos han tenido un largo cariñño por su herencia revolucionaria, pero ¿¿dóónde reside ahora la Revolucióón mexicana en la memoria colectiva?, ¿¿todavíía tiene poder legitimador la idea de la Revolucióón? ¿¿Y cuáál ha sido el víínculo entre la secuencia larga de las crisis de legitimidad del PRI y la Revolucióón Mexicana? Hasta que la democracia procesal proporcione ventajas substantivas y psicolóógicas significativas, la vuelta reciente a la democracia no suplantaráá completamente las fuentes tradicionales de la legitimidad en Mééxico. Mientras que los mexicanos generalmente entienden que el réégimen ha fallado en la realizacióón de las metas báásicas de la Revolucióón mexicana, hay indicaciones que la Revolucióón——entendida como memoria colectiva, mito, historia e identidad nacional——todavíía tiene lugar en el discurso y retóórica polííticos, incluso si tales conocimientos tienen poco sentido lóógico en la éépoca de la globalizacióón.

scholarly journals The ukrainian experience of national identity transformation (On the material “under the wings of big mother” by S. Protsiuk)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (46) ◽  
pp. 273-280
Author(s):  
Anna Chernysh ◽  
Larysa Horbolis
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
World View ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Identity Changes ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Revolution

This article is devoted to the investigation of Ukrainian national identity transformation, conditioned by the events of the Revolution of Dignity in the novel “Under the Wings of Big Mother” by S. Protsiuk. It was found out that the problem of national identity is the key one on the thematic, problematic, ideological, and figurative levels. The basic categories in the process of the new national identity formation in the novel “Under the Wings of Big Mother” by S. Protsiuk are pain, suffering, sorrow, and fear. The transformation of the national identity is subordinate to the moral and ethical discourse of changes, which were prompted by the revolution. The article serves to analyze political obstacles, mental traps and drawbacks of Ukrainian psychological character that prevented Ukrainians from forming a strong national identity. Changes of Ukrainian national identity is caused by the traumatic experience of Ukraine being a part of USSR, marked by genocide, linguicide, culturicide, Holodomor, and political repressions. The transformation of Ukrainian national identity in the beginning of the 21st century made possible the establishment of the key national identities (identitas): history, language, territory, basic national symbols and codes. It was proved that the modification of the national identity and the awareness of the ethnic value and self-identification are possible on the condition of understanding of mental traps and psychological drawbacks of Ukrainians that impeded the Ukrainian people of forming their identity and world view to the full extent.

scholarly journals “We All Hoisted the American Flag:” National identity among American Prisoners in Britain during the American Revolution

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCIS D. COGLIANO
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Identity ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Imperial Authority ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
New Nation ◽  
American Flag ◽  
The Revolution

“What is an American?” asked the French émigré Hector St. John Crèvecoeur in 1782. In so doing, Crèvecoeur posed one of the fundamental questions of the revolutionary era. When the colonists overthrew imperial authority; declared independence; formed an independent confederation of states; and waged war for its existence; they created a new nation and a new nationality. To be sure, colonists and Britons alike had long used the term “American,” none the less, a complete sense of American national identity was largely inchoate before the American Revolution. Before the Revolution, most Americans identified more with their individual colonies than with an abstract geographic concept like “America.” While the Revolution did not completely supplant regional loyalties, it introduced a new, compelling loyalty: to the United States of America. The Revolution forced Americans to choose between loyalty to Britain or the United States. Ultimately, the majority opted for the United States. Those who did, helped define what it meant to be American by their words and actions. The purpose of this article is to examine the development of loyalty to the United States and the development of an American national identity among one group of Americans: sailors imprisoned in Britain during the Revolution.

The Colonial Past in the Early Republic

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-209
Author(s):  
Michael D. Hattem
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
National History ◽  
Critical Part ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
New Republic ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter examines representations of the colonial past in the two decades following the end of the war. It explores how postwar Americans reimagined their shared colonial past in light of the present by stressing the colonies’ practical independence from Britain and internal unity from the earliest days of settlement. In doing so, this new shared colonial past contributed to both a sense of historical and cultural independence from the former mother country and a historical narrative that de-radicalized the Revolution by stressing continuity between the colonial past and present. It argues that reimagining the colonial past was a critical part of the efforts to create a shared national history that would foster national identity in the new republic.

Russian Religious-Philosophical Renaissance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Church Reform ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Study Circles ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Existentialism ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Revolution

The Russian Religious-Philosophical Renaissance was created by lay intellectuals who found rationalism, positivism and Marxism inadequate as explanations of the world or guides to life. They were deeply engaged in finding solutions to the problems of their time, which they saw as moral or spiritual/cultural in nature. Some were already devout Christians; others became so later on. Collectively known as the God-seekers, they propounded their ideas in numerous publications and in the Religious-Philosophical Societies of St Petersburg and Moscow. The meetings of these societies attracted capacity audiences and helped disassociate religion from reaction. Branches were founded in Kiev and Vladimir. The founding members were mainly Symbolist writers and idealist philosophers. Both groups sought a new understanding of Christianity, but the Symbolists emphasized psychological and literary/aesthetic issues and the idealists focused on ethics, epistemology and political and social reform. The Revolution of 1905 was a watershed for all of them. The hitherto apolitical Symbolists perceived it as the start of the apocalypse and championed anarchistic political doctrines. The idealists continued to champion reform. After the revolution, some of them called for a new religious intelligentsia that respected culture and the creation of wealth, spiritual/cultural and material. Both groups began to talk about national identity and destiny. The Bolshevik Revolution signalled the end of the Religious-Philosophical Renaissance. In 1922–3, over 160 non-Marxist intellectuals were forced into exile, where they continued their work. Inside Russia private religious-philosophic study circles carried on illegally. The Religious-Philosophical Renaissance had a profound impact on Russian thought and culture. It inspired attempts to ground metaphysics and political doctrines in Christianity, demands for church reform, visions of a new culture, sophiology, religious existentialism and new interpretations of Orthodox ritual and dogma. Its proponents made people aware of the needs of the ‘inner man’, the soul or the psyche, and the importance of art and myth. Symbolism became the dominant aesthetic, shaping literature, poetry, painting and theatre. Theorists of Symbolism tried to make it the basis of a new cosmological worldview. The Religious-Philosophical Renaissance was rediscovered by Soviet intellectuals in the 1960s, nourished the dissident movement from then on, and is extensively discussed in Russia today.

Porno Para Ricardo: rock music and the ‘obsession with identity’ in contemporary Cuba

Popular Music ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Astley
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Rock Band ◽  
Revolutionary Period ◽  
Musical Forms ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractThe desire to construct and define a sense of national identity has often been regarded as something of an ‘obsession’ in Cuban political and cultural discourse. Throughout the Revolution, rock music has consistently played some part in the making of a Cuban soundscape. Yet rock has often been seen as something of a threat to an ‘autochthonous’ construction of Cuban culture, and has often been denied legitimacy as part of the Cuban soundworld. Despite the rather liminal position it occupied throughout the revolutionary period, rock music in contemporary Cuba is as ‘obsessed’ with constructing, defining and reflecting a sense of Cubanness as more ‘recognisably Cuban’ musical forms. In this paper I explore some of the negotiations and conflicts in the music of the controversial rock band, Porno Para Ricardo: negotiations between traditional musics, the state and rock music in the perennial quest to defineCubanía.

Unintended Consequences

2018 ◽  
pp. 92-121
Author(s):  
Lior B. Sternfeld
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The Revolution

The ultimate success of the nation-building project, led by the Shah, was evident in the decade leading up to the revolution—when the Jewish community in Iran finally achieved its release from traditional loyalties and viewed itself, first and foremost, as Iranian. This chapter explores the first manifestations of Jewish revolutionary discourse and actions and discusses postrevolutionary Iran and a new nation-building paradigm that Jews faced following the Islamic revolution. This chapter follows the Jewish response to the rapidly unfolding events: from the Shah’s overthrow through the redefinition of the Iranian national identity, from the Iran-Iraq War to the post-Khomeini period. In the post-Khomeini era, Iranian Jews had to navigate between their religious ancestral homeland (Israel) and their national and political homeland (Iran). They had to deftly maneuver between the misinterpretations and deceptions that characterized the harsh rhetoric between Israel and Iran.

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