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

by Tziovas,Dimitris

• ISBN13: 9780754609988
• ISBN10: 0754609987
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Greece and the Balkans explores the cultural relationships between Greece and other Balkan countries in the domains of language, literature, thought, translation, and music, and examines issues of identity and perception among the Balkan peoples themselves. The essays bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines: historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists with specialists on literature, translation, the history of ideas and religion. By raising issues of cultural hybridity, and nationalist or pre-nationalist interpretations of culture and history it lays claim to a place in the context of studies on nationalism and post-colonialism.

Author Biography

Gerasimos Augustinos is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Olga Augustinos has taught French, Modern Greek and Russian at the University of South Carolina Raymond Detrez is Professor of Eastern European and Modern Greek History at the University of Ghent Georgla Farinou-Malamatari is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the University of Thessaloniki K.E. Fleming is Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University Eyal Ginio is Lecturer in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Brian D. Joseph is Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University Yannis Karavidas is Senior Producer in the Greek Section of the BBC World Service Paschalis M. Kitromilides is Professor of Political Sciences at Athens University and Director of the Institute for Neohellenic Research in Athens Vassilis Lambropoulos is C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Michigan Dimitris Livanios is Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London Marla Lopez Villalba teaches Modern Greek and Translation Studies at the University of Malag Constantinos Mantzos is a PhD student at University College London Vassilis Nitsiakos is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Ioannina John G. Plemmenos is Lecturer in Historical Ethnomusicology at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece Ellie Scopetea was Professor of History at the University of Thessalonik Johann Strauss is Associate Professor at the Department of Turkish Studies of the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg Dimitris Tziovas is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Editor's Note	ix
Introduction
Dimitris Tziovas	1	(18)
PART I: Hybrid Identities and Nationalist Anachronisms
1 In the Pre-Modern Balkans...: Loyalties, Identities, Anachronisms
Paschalis M. Kitromilides	19	(11)
2 Relations between Greeks and Bulgarians in the Pre-Nationalist Era: The Gudilas in Plovdiv
Raymond Detrez	30	(17)
PART II: National Perceptions and Historical Imagination
3 The Greek Connection in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Intellectual History
Johann Strauss	47	(21)
4 Christians, Heroes and Barbarians: Serbs and Bulgarians in the Modern Greek Historical Imagination (1602-1950)
Dimitris Livanios	68	(16)
5 Greece and the Balkans between the World Wars: Self-identity, the Other, and National Development
Gerasimos Augustinos	84	(17)
PART III: Religious and Ethnic Otherness
6 South Balkan Rabbinic Readings of Ottoman Rise and Decline: Eliyahu Kapsali of Crete and Yehuda Alkalai of Zemlin
K.E. Fleming	101	(13)
7 Aspects of Muslim Culture in the Ottoman Balkans: A View from Eighteenth-Century Salonica
Eyal Ginio	114	(13)
8 Five Faces-One People: The Sarakatsani in the Balkans
Diana Wardle	127	(14)
PART IV: Cultural Dialogues and Crossroads
9 Balkanizing the French Revolution: Rhigas's New Political Constitution
Maria López Villalba	141	(14)
10 Arches of Discord, Streams of Confluence: The Building of Bridges in the Balkans
Olga Augustinos	155	(16)
11 The Balkans and the Notion of the "Crossroads between East and West"
Ellie Scopetea	171	(8)
PART V: Musical Encounters and Cultural Politics
12 Musical Encounters at the Greek Courts of Jassy and Bucharest in the Eighteenth Century
John G. Plemmenos	179	(13)
13 Negotiating Culture: Political Uses of Polyphonic Folk Songs in Greece and Albania
Vassilis Nitsiakos & Constantinos Mantzos	192	(16)
14 The Cretan Muslims and the Music of Crete
Chris Williams	208	(15)
PART VI: Challenging the Borders: Linguistic Convergence and Literary Images
15 The Role of Greek and Greece Linguistically in the Balkans
Brian D. Joseph	223	(11)
16 "With a deep craving for Albania in my heart": The Anxieties of a Greek Surrealist in the Late 1930's
Yannis Karavidas	234	(15)
17 The Representation of the Balkans in Modern Greek Fiction of the 1990's
Georgia Farinou-Malamatari	249	(16)
PART VII: Rethinking the Balkans
18 Must We Keep Talking about "the Balkans"?
Vassilis Lambropoulos	265	(6)
Index	271