^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Balkan Literatures: in the Era of Nationalism -

Literature became one of the cultural areas which contributed to the discursive construction of nationhood in the new nation-states that were formed in eastern Europe and the Near East upon the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire. This book takes up the literary genres, themes, and motifs that are commonly found in literature's engagement with national issues, such as the relationship between essentialist thinking and national myths, adoption of national languages, foundational narratives, national romances, forged epic cycles, formation of national canons, ideological historiography, and nationalist reconceptions of geography.