Bones of contention the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero / [electronic resource] :
Maria Todorova.
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, c2 009.
- xxi, 600 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bones of contention or professionals, dilettantes, and who owns hist ory -- A "social drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences -- From br each to crisis -- No redress, or where are Levski's bones? -- A sociali st public sphere? -- "Professionals" and "dilettantes" -- Recognizing t he schism or what is worse : bad professionals or good nationalists? -- The apostle of freedom or what makes a hero? -- What is a hero and are heroes born? -- The "making" of Vasil Levski -- A banner for all cause s : appropriating the hero -- Contesting the hero -- The literary and v isual hypostases of the hero -- From hero for all to dissident and back -- The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski -- The split or how a bicephalous organism functions -- The canonization a nd its implications -- Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and nar ration -- The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus -- Commemoration, r itual and the sacred -- Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarna tion.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.
Levski, Vasil Ivanov, 1837-1873 -- Tomb. Levski, Vasil Ivanov, 1837-1873 -- Death and burial.