Orient Within Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria

Name: Orient Within Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria
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ISBN: 9780801477201

ISBN-10: 0801477204

ISBN-13: 9780801477201

Edition: 2011

Authors: Mary C. Neuburger

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Bulgaria is a Slavic nation, Orthodox in faith but with a sizable Muslim minority. That minority is divided into various ethnic groups, including the most numerically significant Turks and the so-called Pomaks, Bulgarian-speaking men and women who have converted to Islam. Mary Neuburger explores how Muslim minorities were integral to Bulgaria's struggle to extricate itself from its Ottoman past and develop a national identity, a process complicated by its geographic and historical positioning between evolving and imagined parameters of East and West. The Orient Within examines the Slavic majority's efforts to conceptualize and manage Turkish and Pomak identities and bodies through gendered…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


A Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Sources


Introduction



The Bulgarian Figure in the Ottoman Carpet: Untangling Nation from Empire



Muslim Rebirth: Nationalism, Communism, and the Path to 1984



Under the Fez and the Foreskin: Modernity and the Mapping of Muslim Manhood



The Citizen behind the Veil: National Imperatives and the Re-dressing of Muslim Women



A Muslim by Any ï¿½Otherï¿½ Name: The Power of Naming and Renaming



On What Grounds the Nation?: Parcels of Land and Meaning


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index