Identity a mýty novej štátnosti na Slovensku po roku 1993: (Náčrt slovenskej mytológie na prelome tisícročia.)

Rok, strany: 2002, 147 - 170

The article attempts to depict a construct of the national Slovak mythology, seen from the aspect of the recent fundamental political and social changes. These are: the fall of the communism and the establishment of a new state, the Slovak Republic, as a remain of the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The author follows the historical contexts, continuity and discontinuity of the collective memory of the Slovaks after 1993, while focusing on: official state symbols, holidays in the established Slovak Republic, historical and mental stereotypes, that happened to become the fundamental identity codes for the members of the new state, focused in two views: 1. official 2. spontaneous, unofficial. The research shows, that the official holidays, myths and at the time of the millenium turn, causedto emphasize an anticommunist tendency (bounded to the turn in 1989), as well as strengthening the national identity and Christian construction of the memory. The fundamental official symbols and the most important parts of the Slovak national identity and mythology bound to the years 1840– 1849 (flag, national anthem), or eventually to the middle of the 19th century (the plebeian line of the self-portrait of the Slovak). The necessity of the revaluation of some myths, that seems to be very important for the future, concerns mainly the plebeian perception line of the Slovaks, as well as an ”emptening” of the historical memory.

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Krekovičová, E. 2002. Identity a mýty novej štátnosti na Slovensku po roku 1993: (Náčrt slovenskej mytológie na prelome tisícročia.). In Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, vol. 50, no.2, pp. 147-170. 1339-9357.

APA:

Krekovičová, E. (2002). Identity a mýty novej štátnosti na Slovensku po roku 1993: (Náčrt slovenskej mytológie na prelome tisícročia.). Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, 50(2), 147-170. 1339-9357.