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Modernism, Nationalism, Albanianism: Geographic Poetry and Poetic Geography in the Albanian and Kosovar Independence Movements

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The nationalist ideals which fired the Albanian independence movement were drawn from western revolutionary art, even as Albanian poets domesticated these foreign ideas into the well-established language of traditional Albanian poetry to create a new hybrid form of art: both familiar and foreign, conventional and revolutionary. By appropriating both romantic idealizations of the landscape and through specific mention of place names, the Albanians constructed an appeal to national independence in the wake of Ottoman decay through claims of a unified physical space with carefully delimited borders. This allowed for the establishment of a primary national identity to replace the variety of identities that the Ottomans used to divide the Albanians.

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    Adam J. Goldwyn

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Goldwyn, A.J. (2016). Modernism, Nationalism, Albanianism: Geographic Poetry and Poetic Geography in the Albanian and Kosovar Independence Movements. In: Goldwyn, A., Silverman, R. (eds) Mediterranean Modernism. Mediterranean Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58656-8_11

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