The Bivocal Nation: Memory And Identity On The Edge Of Empire
by Nutsa Batiashvili /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood. Its
principal purpose is to examine division and polarization as
forms of imagining that are configured within culture and framed
by history. This is what bivocality signifies―two distinct
discursive voices through which nationhood is articulated; voices
that are nonetheless grounded in a culturally common symbolic
field. The volume offers an ethnographically centered analysis of
the ways in which Georgians make use of these voices in critical
discourses of nationhood. By illuminating the cultural semantics
behind these discourses, Nutsa Batiashvili offers a new
constellation of conceptual terms for understanding modern forms
of nationalism and nation-building in the marginal or liminal
landscapes between the Orient and the Occident.
This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood. Its
principal purpose is to examine division and polarization as
forms of imagining that are configured within culture and framed
by history. This is what bivocality signifies―two distinct
discursive voices through which nationhood is articulated; voices
that are nonetheless grounded in a culturally common symbolic
field. The volume offers an ethnographically centered analysis of
the ways in which Georgians make use of these voices in critical
discourses of nationhood. By illuminating the cultural semantics
behind these discourses, Nutsa Batiashvili offers a new
constellation of conceptual terms for understanding modern forms
of nationalism and nation-building in the marginal or liminal
landscapes between the Orient and the Occident.
