The essence and the margin : national identities and collective memories in contemporary European culture / edited by Laura Rorato and Anna Saunders.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A EUROPEAN MODE OF CULTURAL IMAGINARY?; CHAPTER 2: HISTORY AND FORMS OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN EUROPE: WHY EUROPE CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE BUILT ON HISTORY; CHAPTER 3: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF MINORITY IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THREE 'HUMAN' EXHIBITIONS; CHAPTER 4: SHORN WOMEN, RUBBLE WOMEN AND MILITARY HEROES: GENDER, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN BRITAIN, FRANCE AND GERMANY, 1944-1948.

With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions - and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary - the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe, which together suggest emerging patterns of identification within contemporary Europe - patterns which may not necessarily amount to a European 'ide.

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