The nation has two `voices
Diforia and performativity in Athens 2004
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9401288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Tzanelli (0000-0002-5765-9856, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 489-508 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367549408094984 |
| OpenAlex | W2128257262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article explores the contemporary conditions of national self-presentation, inviting students of national identity to reconsider the nature of national self-narration through new conceptual tools. It is argued that contemporary nations have two `voices': one is addressed to their members, another speaks to the nation's external interlocutors. Both voices contribute to the performance of identity: for nations which are the product of colonial and `crypto-colonial' encounters, narration is characterized by a negotiation of the boundaries between private and public voices and slippage in utterance. The article introduces a new concept in the study of culture, `diforia', which accounts for both this split meaning of utterance and national performativity in public. The concept is mobilized to examine and deconstruct a recent case of Greek diforia enacted in the context of the opening and closing ceremonies of Athens 2004
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Hybridity · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Narrative · National identity · Negotiation · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Presentation (obstetrics · Social science · Sociology · Utterance · Anthropology · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture
Subjects of desire
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Black Skin, White Masks
Nations and nationalism in a global era
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Nietzsche and Philosophy
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Nations and Nationalism
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Culture by the Pound
Anthropology through the Looking-Glass
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
The Wretched of the Earth
The Nation and Its Fragments
Bodies that Matter
Cultural Intimacy
Towards an Ethnographic Phenomenology of the Greek Spirit
Black Skins, White Masks
Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass
Ernest Gellner's reply
European modernity and Greek national identity
The Sadness of Sweetness
Interior Colonies
The Absent Presence
Giving gifts (and then taking them back)
Bodies That Matter
The Ethnic Revival in the Modern World
The Past as a Scarce Resource
The Psychic Life of Power
The Poetics of Manhood
Modernity and Ambivalence
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2017 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |