Nationalism, Modernism, Identity. A Comparative Study of Two Literary Families: James and Slaveikov

Author: Madlen Danova

The book explores one of the most relevant issues of our time – the construction of national identity and the transformations that occurred in it with the socio-cultural changes and the emergence of modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These processes are traced through the analysis of the autobiographical works of the members of two of the most famous literary families in Bulgaria and the USA – the Slaveikovs and the Jameses. By rethinking the most current contemporary theories of identity, a new definition of the cosmopolitan cultural identity of modernism is proposed and both the differences and similarities in the genealogy of this process in the two countries are revealed.

ISBN 954-90375-7-6

Published: 2000 

Page Count: 160 pp.