Политиките на "поколението" (във вестниците Народност и Дунавска зора)
The politics of the 'generation' (in Narodnost and Dunavska Zora newspapers)

Summary/Abstract: Tracing the generational discourse of Bulgarian emigrant press from the 1850s and 1860s, the article explores how the models of social and national solidarity represented in metaphorical uses of age refl ected the interests of different strata as well as the cultural and political attitudes of particular emigrant circles. It discusses the images of youth and fi liation in the works of prominent writers and public fi gures which constructed the broad semantic fi eld of the emancipation from the traditional authorities of the Ottoman Empire. The opposition between ‘the young’ and ‘the old’ that was promoted by the periodicals Narodnost and Dunavska Zora is emphasized as a signifi er of the confl ict between Bulgarian ‘democrats’/revolutionaries and the upholders of the local community’s social activity and care. The analysis attempts to ‘derive’ important visions of society and social bonds embedded in the rhetorics of ‘generation,’ in order to provide cogent illustrations of the complex dynamic of Bulgarian transition to modernity.

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