When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique study focuses on three word-concepts on the periphery of Europe, providing a wide-ranging survey of national identity and cultural essentialism, nostalgia, melancholy and fatalism, the production of memory and the politics of hope.

Autorentext
Kyra Giorgi is a writer and cultural historian. She received her PhD in History from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Emotions into History PART I: SAUDADE AND PORTUGUESENESS 2. Proudly Alone? 3. Modernity and Martyrdom PART II: LÍTOST AND CZECHNESS 4. The Evolution of a Fatalism 5. Culture as Identity PART III: HÜZÜN AND TURKISHNESS 6. Defining Memories 7. Occidental Tourism Conclusion