EAN: 9783838215372

BALKAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY THE ALPHABET OF D...

What is the relationship between writing systems and nationalism? How can different alphabets
coexist in the same country? What is the destiny of the Cyrillic alphabet in Europe? Giustina
Selvelli¿s original work provides detailed answers to these far-reaching and potentially
divisive questions and many more by examining several intriguing debates on topics of alphabets
and national identity in a number of countries from the Balkan area over the course of the last
100 years. Following an encompassing perspective on alphabetic diversity  Selvelli  an expert
on Southeast European Studies  reconstructs the ideological context of national discourses
connected to the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets  also taking a look at the Arabic and Glagolitic
scripts  and interweaving issues on the symbolism of the alphabet with the complex recent
history of the region  marked by the parallel influences of the East and the West. She also
sheds light on the impact of a range of alphabet policies on ethnolinguistic minorities 
proposing a new definition of ¿alphabetic rights¿ with special regard to the multiethnic legacy
of the former Ottoman and Habsburg empires. This comprehensive book makes us discover the
privileged role that writing systems played in the region¿s delicate post-imperial and
post-socialist transitions  leaving us captivated by peculiar stories such as that of the
utopian ¿Yugoslav alphabet¿.

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