National stereotyping, identity politics, European crises / edited by Jurgen Barkhoff and Joep Leerssen.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Part 1: History and Identity Politics -- 1. Confronting the Other/Perceiving the Self -- 2. Claiming a Great Ancient Imperial Past as an Identity Element of a Small Modern Nation -- 3. The Longue durée of Brexit -- Part 2: Identity Politics of the Neo-Right -- 4. From Identity Politics to the Identitarian Movement -- 5. Re/nationalising EU-rope -- Part 3: Strategies of Othering -- 6. The Camp and the Home -- 7. The EU and the East-West Paradox -- 8. The Image of the Wall -- Part 4: Stereotyping in the Media -- 9. Prime Time Nationalism -- 10. Stereotyping by Default in Media Transfer -- 11. The Image of Spain in the Eyes of Austrian, Flemish, French, Italian, Polish -- Part 5: The Economic Crisis in Literature -- 12. Resilient Stereotypes in Recent Crisis Novels from Spain -- 13. Virtually There

"The articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of a global modernity. Recently, this discourse of Othering and national stereotyping has gained fresh political virulence as a result of the rise of "Identity Politics". What is more, this newly politicized self/other discourse has affected Europe itself as that continent has been weathering a series of economic and political crises in recent years. The present volume traces the conjunction between cultural and literary traditions and contemporary ideologies during the crisis of European multilateralism. Contributors: Aelita Ambruleviciute, Jurgen Barkhoff, Stefan Berger, Zrinka Blazevic, Daniel Carey, Ana Maria Fraile, Wulf Kansteiner, Joep Leerssen, Hercules Millas, Zenonas Norkus, Aidan O'Malley, Raul Sanchez Prieto, Karel Sima, Luc Van Doorslaer,Ruth Wodak"-- Provided by publisher.