1st Edition
Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters' Rethinking civility
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Cosmpolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’ reconsiders the definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and ‘national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. Taking as a case study the Greek islands of Skiathos and Skopelos which served as cinematic locations for the blockbuster Mamma Mia! (2008), the book explores how national identity - once shaped by political,... Read more
1. Ethnographic Fiction and Autobiographical 'Truth' 2. Orientalist Vision and the Carnivalesque of 'Revelations' 3. Foreground to Background: From Locality to 'Nation' 4. 'The Winner Takes it All': The Coming of Second Modernity 5. The Original Theft (and other treacherous religiosities) 6. Leviathan Revealed
Biography
Rodanthi Tzanelli is Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director, Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, at the University of Leeds. She has published widely on national identity, the anthropology of cosmopolitanism and the politics of cultural industries. She is author of The Cinematic Tourist: Explorations in globalization, culture and resistance (2007), Nation-building and Identity in Europe: The dialogics of reciprocity (2008) and The 'Greece' of Britain and the 'Britain' of Greece (2009).
