Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Preface 1
6. Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic countries after the fall of communism 5
7. Analyses
8. Chapter 1. Collective memory and media genres 35
9. Chapter 2. The quest for a proper Bulgarian national holiday 57
10. Chapter 3. The multiple symbolism of 3 May in Poland after the fall of communism 81
11. Chapter 4. “Dan skuplji vijeka,” ‘A day more precious than a century’ 101
12. Chapter 5. Croatia in search of a national day 125
13. Chapter 6. Contested pasts, contested red-letter days 149
14. Chapter 7. Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising of 1 August 1944 171
15. Chapter 8. Ilinden 191
16. Chapter 9. Slovak national identity as articulated in the homilies of a religious holiday 213
17. Chapter 10. The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October 231
18. Chapter 11. Disputes over national holidays 251
19. Chapter 12. What Europe means for Poland 271
20. References 297
21. Appendix A. List of current laws on national holidays in West and South Slavic countries 311
22. Index 313