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Part 2. Nation-building and regionalism in a multi-ethnic context

Marius Turda 15 For the best analysis of this contamination, see Sorin Antohi, “Romänii in anii ‘90: Geografii simbolice si identitate socialä” (The Romanians in the 1990s: Symbolic geographies and social identity), in Exercitittl distantei: Discursuri, societäti, metode (The exercise of distance: Discourses, societies, methods) (Bucharest: Nemira, 1997), pp. 292-316. 16 At this point I agree with Sorin Mitu’s scepticism regarding the separate cul­tural memory of Transylvanians. “Regardless of what Transylvanians thought, were there not in fact real civilisational structures, values, attitudes, mentali­ties, capable of conferring a distinct character to this province? The Habsburg heritage - the Empire’s well-ordered bureaucracy or the spirit of Central Europe - has not imprinted a character on this region, which categorically dis­tinguishes it from other Romanian provinces? The answer, in my opinion, is that almost nothing concrete has survived of such a heritage, with the excep­tion of a sea of memories, regrets and nostalgia with nothing to back them.” Sorin Mitu, “Illusions and Facts about Transylvania,” The Hungarian Quarterly 39 (Winter 1998), p. 72. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Antohi, Sorin. Civitas Imaginalis: Istorie si Utopie in cultura romána (Civitas Imag­­inalis: History and utopia in Romanian culture). Bucharest: Litera, 1994. ______“Putting Romania on Europe’s Map.” Paper presented at the workshop Euro-Balkans and Balkan Literature. Budapest (6-7 February 1998), pp. 35-37. Bakic-Hayden, Milica, and Robert Hayden. “Orientalist Variations on the Theme ‘Balkans:’ Symbolic Geographies in Yugoslav Cultural Politics.” Slavic Review 51 (Spring 1992), pp. 1-15. Chimet, Iordan, ed. Momentul adevärului (Moment of truth). Cluj-Napoca: Dacia, 1996. Feldman, Jörg. Quo Vadis Romania? Rumäniens Innen-, Sozial- und Wirtschaft­spolitik und die Osterweiterung der EU und der Nato (Quo Vadis Roma­nia? The Romanian Internal, Social and Economic Policy and the EU and NATO Enlargement). Hamburg: Libri, 2000. Marino, Adrian. Pentru Europa. Integrarea Romäniei: Aspecte ideologice si culturale (For Europe. The integration of Romania: Ideological and cultural aspects). Iasi: Polirom, 1995. Molnár, Gusztáv, and Gabriel Andreescu, eds. Probléma transilvanä (The Transyl­vanian problem). Iasi: Polirom, 1999. Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina. Transilvania subiectivä (Subjective Transylvania). Bucharest: Humanitás, 1999. Schöpflin, George. Politics in Eastern Europe, 1945-1992. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Verdery, Katherine. “Civil Society or Nation? Europe in the Symbolism of Roma­nia’s Postsocialist Politics.” In Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D. Kennedy, eds., Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999, pp. 301-340. White, George W. “Transylvania: Hungarian, Romanian or Neither?” In Guntrom H. Herb and David H. Kaplan, eds., Nested Identities, Nationalism, Terri­tory and Scale. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, pp. 267-287. 206

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