Greece and the Balkans Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters since the Enlightenment

Contents: Introduction, Dimitris Tziovas; Hybrid Identities and Nationalist Anachronisms: In the pre-modern Balkans...: loyalties, identities, anachronisms, Paschalis M. Kitromilides; Relations between Greeks and Bulgarians in the pre-nationalist era: The Gudilas in Plovdiv, Raymond Detrez; National Perceptions and Historical Imagination: The Greek connection in 19th-century Ottoman intellectual history, Johann Strauss; Christians, heroes and Barbarians: Serbs and Bulgarians in the modern Greek historical imagination (1602-1950), Dimitris Livanios; Greece and the Balkans between the world wars: self-identity, the other, and national development, Gerasimos Augustinos; Religious and Ethnic Otherness: South Balkan Rabbinic readings of Ottoman rise and decline: Eliyahu Kapsali of Crete and Yehuda Alkalai of Zemlin, K. E. Fleming; Aspects of Muslim culture in the Ottoman Balkans: a view from 18th-century Salonica, Eyal Ginio; Five faces - one people: the Sarakatsani in the Balkans, Diana Wardle; Cultural Dialogues and Crossroads: Balkanizing the French Revolution: Rhigas's New Political Constitution, María López Villalba; Arches of discord, streams of confluence: the building of bridges in the Balkans, Olga Augustinos; The Balkans and the notion of the 'Crossroads between east and west', Ellie Scopetea; Musical Encounters and Cultural Politics: Musical encounters at the Greek Courts of Jassy and Bucharest in the 18th century, John G. Plemmenos; Negotiating culture: political uses of polyphonic folk songs in Greece and Albania, Vassilis Nitsiakos and Constantinos Mantzos; The Cretan Muslims and the music of Crete, Chris Williams; Challenging the Borders: Linguistic Convergence and Literary Images: The role of Greek and Greece linguistically in the Balkans, Brian D. Joseph; 'With the deep craving for Albania in my heart': the anxieties of a Greek surrealist in the late 1930s, Yannis Karavidas; The representation of the Balkans in modern Greek fiction of the 1990s, Ge

Biography

Dimitris Tziovas is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. He has published a number of books on modern Greek literature and culture and his most recent book is The Other Self: Selfhood and Society in Modern Greek Fiction.

'It features up-to-date scholarship, focused studies around broad themes, and a wide historical sweep... it offers a wealth of insight...' Kathimerini, Greece's International English Language Newspaper 'Taken together, the essays that make up this volume present a historical picture of the Balkan region very different from the fissiparous stereotype of violent nationalist divisions that emerges, more clearly than ever before, as barely more than a century old.' The Anglo-Hellenic Review