Echoing Events. The Perpetuation of National Narratives in English and Dutch History Textbooks, 1920–2010
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2022-12-05
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van der Vlies, Tina
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Göttingen: V&R unipress
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Der Band hinterfragt die Fortschreibung, Aktualisierung und Kanonisierung nationaler Narrative in englischen und niederländischen Schulbüchern – Medien mit großer Reichweite, die tendenziell sinn- und identitätsstiftend wirken und die nationale Erinnerung formen. Diese Längsschnittstudie beginnt in den 1920ern, als der Völkerbund Bemühungen unternahm, mit verschiedenen Initiativen die starke nationale Prägung von Schulbucherzählungen zu mildern, und endet im neuen Jahrtausend mit dem Erstarken nationaler Narrative in beiden Ländern. Die Analyse zeigt, wie und warum Autorinnen und Autoren von Schulbüchern verschiedene Geschichten – die sich in Inhalt, Epoche und Orten unterscheiden – als widerhallende Ereignisse darstellen, indem sie sie als wiederkehrende Geschehnisse mit derselben Kombination historischer Analogien beschreiben. Diese innovative und originelle Studie untersucht somit aus einem neuen Blickwinkel den Widerstand nationaler Narrative gegen Veränderung.
The book questions the perpetuation, actualization, and canonization of national narratives in English and Dutch history textbooks, wide-reaching media that tendentially inspire a sense of meaning, memory, and thus also identity. The longitudinal study begins in the 1920s, when the League of Nations launched several initiatives to reduce strong nationalistic visions in textbooks, and ends in the new millennium with the revival of national narratives in both countries. The analysis shows how and why textbook authors have narrated different histories – which vary in terms of context, epoch, and place – as ‘echoing events’ by using recurring plots and the same combinations of historical analogies. This innovative and original study thus investigates from a new angle the resistance of national narratives to change
The book questions the perpetuation, actualization, and canonization of national narratives in English and Dutch history textbooks, wide-reaching media that tendentially inspire a sense of meaning, memory, and thus also identity. The longitudinal study begins in the 1920s, when the League of Nations launched several initiatives to reduce strong nationalistic visions in textbooks, and ends in the new millennium with the revival of national narratives in both countries. The analysis shows how and why textbook authors have narrated different histories – which vary in terms of context, epoch, and place – as ‘echoing events’ by using recurring plots and the same combinations of historical analogies. This innovative and original study thus investigates from a new angle the resistance of national narratives to change
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