Albanian Identities: Myth and HistoryStephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Bernd Jürgen Fischer Albanian history and society are permeated with myths and mythical narratives, which often serve political purposes. On the basis of myths, collective identities are ideologically defined, social boundaries and exclusion and inclusion justified, images of friend and foe constructed, and feelings of belonging, pride, trust or suspicion evoked. Albanian history and politics have explicitly shown, not least in the Kosovo war, how myths are used to justify and direct violence, how attention is distracted from responsibilities, and how power and internal cohesion is established through selectively omitting, reproducing or (re)-inventing myths. |
Contents
Some Theoretical Aspects | 26 |
Myth and Amnesia | 33 |
The Role of Education in the Formation | 49 |
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Aiōn Albanian history Albanian identity Albanian language Albanian myths Albanian national movement Albanian society arsimi Balkan Bari became Bektashi Çekrezi century Christians civil society claims communist concept conspiracy theories construction context culture curricula Dako democracy Enver Hoxha epic ethnic Europe European Faik Konica Fan Noli Fatos Lubonja foreign Germans Greece Greek hero historiography homogeneity Ibid ideology Illyrian important institutions Ioannina Islam Ismail Kadare Istanbul Italian Kadare Kadare's Konica Kosovo Kristo Kupi League of Prizren Liberation London military modern Muslim mythical mythology Naim Frashëri narrative national identity national myths nationhood nineteenth officers Olsi oral organisation Orthodox Ottoman Empire Parry and Lord partisans Party Pasha Pelasgian period Petrit political post-communist Prishtina Prizren religion religious role schools Serbian Serbs Shkollat shqipe Skanderbeg Slavs social socialist SOE's tekke territory Tirana tradition Turkish University Vlora Western Yugoslavia Zogu