The Bivocal Nation Memory and Identity on the Edge of Empire /

• Main Author: Batiashvili, Nutsa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethnography.; Ethnology.; Russia-Politics and government.; Historiography.; Cultural Anthropology.; Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.; Memory Studies.

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 art...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: What Kind of Imagined Community? A Community of Voices
• 1. We, Us, Ourselves and Our Others
• 2. We Were Always United, Except When We Were Not
• 3. Things Coded in Our Genetic Memory
• 4. Horizons, Margins and Centers of Nation-Making in the 19th Century Georgia
• 5. "It's a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards."- 6. Libri Magni or the Book that will Stop the War.