Greece and the Balkans: identities, perceptions and cultural encounters since the Enlightenment / edited by Dimitris Tziovas

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents Contributors Editors Note Introduction PART I: Hybrid Identities and Nationalist Anachronisms 1 In the Pre-Modern Balkans...: Loyalties, Identities, Anachronisms 2 Relations between Greeks and Bulgarians in the Pre-Nationalist Era: The Gudilas in Plovdiv PART II: National Perceptions and Historical Imagination 3 The Greek Connection in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Intellectual History 4 Christians, Heroes and Barbarians: Serbs and Bulgarians in the Modern Greek Historical Imagination (1602—1950) 5 Greece and the Balkans between the World Wars: Self-identity, the Other, and National Development PART III: Religious and Ethnic Otherness 6 South Balkan Rabbinic Readings of Ottoman Rise and Decline: Eliyahu Kapsali of Crete and Yehuda Alkalai of Zemlin 7 Aspects of Muslim Culture in the Ottoman Balkans: A View from Eighteenth-Century Salonica 8 Five Faces—One People: The Sarakatsani in the Balkans PART IV: Cultural Dialogues and Crossroads 9 Balkanizing the French Revolution: Rhigas's New Political Constitution 10 Arches of Discord, Streams of Confluence: The Building of Bridges in the Balkans 11 The Balkans and the Notion of the "Crossroads between East and West" PART V: Musical Encounters and Cultural Politics 12 Musical Encounters at the Greek Courts of Jassy and Bucharest in the Eighteenth Century 13 Negotiating Culture: Political Uses of Polyphonic Folk Songs in Greece and Albania 14 The Cretan Muslims and the Music of Crete PART VI: Challenging the Borders: Linguistic Literary Convergence and Images 15 The Role of Greek and Greece Linguistically in the Balkans 16 "With a deep craving for Albania in my heart": The Anxieties of a Greek Surrealist in the Late 17 The Representation of the Balkans in Modern Greek Fiction of the PART VII: Rethinking the Balkans 18 Must We Keep Talking about "the Balkans"? Index