Table of contents
Contributors
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Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic
countries after the fall of communism: Introductory thoughts
Analyses
Chapter 1. Collective memory and media genres: Serbian Statehood Day 2002–2010
Chapter 2. The quest for a proper Bulgarian national holiday
Chapter 3. The multiple symbolism of 3 May in Poland after the fall of
communism
Chapter 4. “Dan skuplji vijeka,” ‘A day more precious than a century’: Constructing Montenegrin identity by commemorating Independence Day
Chapter 5. Croatia in search of a national day: Front-page presentations of national-day celebrations, 1988–2005
Chapter 6. Contested pasts, contested red-letter days: Antifascist commemorations and ethnic identities in post-communist Croatia
Chapter 7. Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising of 1 August 1944: International relational aspects of commemorative practices
Chapter 8. Ilinden: Linking a Macedonian past, present and future
Chapter 9. Slovak national identity as articulated in the homilies of a religious holiday
Chapter 10. The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October: Stability and change in four presidential addresses 1988–2008
Chapter 11. Disputes over national holidays: Bosnia and Herzegovina 2000–2010
Chapter 12. What Europe means for Poland: The front-page coverage of Independence Day in Gazeta Wyborcza 1989–2009
References
Appendix A. List of current laws on national holidays in West and South Slavic countries
Index
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