Bones of Contention

The living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero

Bibliographic Data

ID19935545
AuthorsMaria Todorova (0000-0002-8167-4757, corresponding author), Marii︠a︡ Nikolaeva Todorova (0000-0002-1725-5048)
Year2009
Pages600
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBones of contention (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCentral European University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7829/9789639776241todorovabones
OpenAlexW636251461
Open LibraryOL17103882M
ISBN9789639776241
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Introduction Part I. Bones of Contention or Professionals, Dilettantes, and Who Owns History 1.1 A Asocial dramaA at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1.2 From breach to crisis 1.3 No redress, or where are Levski's bones? 1.4 A socialist public sphere? 1.5 AProfessionalsA and AdilettantesA 1.6 Recognizing the schism or what is worse: bad professionals or good nationalists? Part II. The Apostle of Freedom or What Makes a Hero? 2.1 What is a hero and are heroes born? 2.2 The AmakingA of Vasil Levski 2.3 A banner for all causes: appropriating the hero 2.4 Contesting the hero 2.5 The literary and visual hypostases of the hero 2.6 From hero for all to dissident and back Part III. The National Hero as Secular Saint: The Canonization of Levski 3.1 The split or how a bicephalous organism functions 3.2 The canonization and its implications 3.3 Levski and the Bulgarian church: memory and narration 3.4 The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus 3.5 Commemoration, ritual and the sacred 3.6 Heroes and saints: the dialectics of reincarnation Conclusion Appendices Index

Art · HERO · Literature · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · 1837-1873 · biography · Bulgaria · Death and burial · Historiography · Levski, Vasil Ivanov · Revolutionaries · Tomb · vasil ivanov Levski (1837-1873)