Emotions, Language and Identity on the Margins of Europe

by K. Giorgi

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137403476
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/05/2014
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kyra 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Emotions into History PART I: SAUDADE AND PORTUGUESENESS 2. Proudly Alone? 3. Modernity and Martyrdom PART II: LÍTOST AND CZECHNESS 4. The Evolution of a Fatalism 5. Culture as Identity PART III: HÜZÜN AND TURKISHNESS 6. Defining Memories 7. Occidental Tourism Conclusion