The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780791450246)

The Remote Borderland explores the significance of the contested region of Transylvania to the creation of Hungarian national identity. Author László Kürti illustrates the process by which European intellectuals, politicians, and artists locate their nation's territory, embody it with meaning, and reassert its importance at various historical junctures. The book's discussion of the contested and negotiated nature of nationality in its East Central European setting reveals cultural assumptions profoundly mortgaged to twentieth-century notions of home, nation, state, and people. The Remote Borderland shows that it is not only important to recognize that nations are imagined, but to note how and where they are imagined in order to truly understand the transformation of European societies during the twentieth century.

Author: Laszlo Kurti
ISBN-10: 0791450244
ISBN-13: 9780791450246
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2001
Pages: 259
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.92w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2002 pg. 1641
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 36