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Book SynopsisThe articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of a global modernity. Recently, this discourse of Othering and national stereotyping has gained fresh political virulence as a result of the rise of “Identity Politics”. What is more, this newly politicized self/other discourse has affected Europe itself as that continent has been weathering a series of economic and political crises in recent years. The present volume traces the conjunction between cultural and literary traditions and contemporary ideologies during the crisis of European multilateralism. Contributors: Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė, Jürgen Barkhoff, Stefan Berger, Zrinka Blažević, Daniel Carey, Ana María Fraile, Wulf Kansteiner, Joep Leerssen, Hercules Millas, Zenonas Norkus, Aidan O’Malley, Raúl Sánchez Prieto, Karel Šima, Luc Van Doorslaer,Ruth Wodak
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Figures and Tables Introduction Jürgen Barkhoff and Joep Leerssen PART 1: History and Identity Politics 1 Confronting the Other/Perceiving the Self National Historiographies and National Stereotypes in Twentieth-Century Europe Stefan Berger 2 Claiming a Great Ancient Imperial Past as an Identity Element of a Small Modern Nation The Case of Lithuania Zenonas Norkus and Aelita Ambruleviit 3 The Longue durée of Brexit Politics, Literature and the British Past Daniel Carey PART 2: Identity Politics of the Neo-Right 4 From Identity Politics to the Identitarian Movement The Europeanisation of Cultural Stereotypes? Karel Šima 5 Re/nationalising EU-rope National Identities, Right-Wing Populism, and Border- and Body-Politics Ruth Wodak PART 3: Strategies of Othering 6 The Camp and the Home Europe as Myth and Metaphor Joep Leerssen 7 The EU and the East-West Paradox The Case of Greece and Turkey Hercules Millas 8 The Image of the Wall The Antemurale Christianitatis Myth from an Imagological Perspective Zrinka Blaževi PART 4: Stereotyping in the Media 9 Prime Time Nationalism Patterns of Prejudice in tv Crime Fiction Wulf Kansteiner 10 Stereotyping by Default in Media Transfer Luc van Doorslaer 11 The Image of Spain in the Eyes of Austrian, Flemish, French, Italian, Polish and Bulgarian Facebook Users Text-Linguistic Opinion-Mining for Detecting and Analysing National Stereotypes Raúl Sánchez Prieto PART 5: The Economic Crisis in Literature 12 Resilient Stereotypes in Recent Crisis Novels from Spain Ana María Fraile 13 Virtually There Spectral Ireland and European Stereotypes in the Novels of Paul Murray Aidan O’Malley Index
