National myths [electronic resource] : constructed pasts, contested presents / edited by Gãaerard Bouchard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The small nation with a big dream : Quãaebec national myths (eighteenth-twentieth centuries) / Gãaerard Bouchard -- 2. National imaginaries in a globalizing age : the case of English Canada / Allan Smith -- 3. The myth(s) that will not die : American national exceptionalism / Ian Tyrrell -- 4. Ethnic myths as national identity in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser -- 5. Understanding Mexico's master myth : a case for theory / Fernando Castaèanos -- 6. 1066 and all that : myths of the English / Krishan Kumar -- 7. Polish mythology and the traps of messianic martyrology / Geneviâaeve Zubrzycki -- 8. Myths and national identity choices in post-communist Russia / Yitzhak M. Brudny -- 9. Myth and the postnational polity : the case of the European Union / Vincent Della Sala -- 10. Transforming myths, contested narratives : the reshaping of mnemonic traditions in Israeli culture / Yael Zerubavel -- 11. War room stories and the rainbow nation : competing narratives in contemporary South African literature / Monica Popescu -- 12. Gender, Nehanda, and the myth of nationhood in the making of Zimbabwe / Ruramisai Charumbira -- 13. War, myths, and national identity formation : Chinese attitudes toward Japan / Yinan He -- 14. Lineages and lessons (for national myth formation) of Japan's postwar national myths / Stephen Vlastos -- 15. Myths of the nation, cultural recognition, and personal law in India / Narendra Subramanian -- 16. National myths : an overview / Gãaerard Bouchard.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.