Emotions, Language and Identity on the Margins of Europe [Hardcover]

When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique study focuses on three word-concepts on the periphery of Europe, providing a wide-ranging survey of national identity and cultural essentialism, nostalgia, melancholy and fatalism, the production of memory and the politics of hope.Introduction 1. Emotions into History PART I: SAUDADE AND PORTUGUESENESS 2. Proudly Alone? 3. Modernity and Martyrdom PART II: L?TOST AND CZECHNESS 4. The Evolution of a Fatalism 5. Culture as Identity PART III: H?Z?N AND TURKISHNESS 6. Defining Memories 7. Occidental Tourism ConclusionKyra Giorgi is a writer and cultural historian. She received her PhD in History from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.