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Carving a Moldavian Identity out of History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Wim van Meurs
Wim van Meurs*
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Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University, Germany
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“For what we all are, really, is elegant scarecrows on fields of words.” Gabriel Liiceanu's metaphor of “discourse” is particularly revealing for the case of the Moldavian nation. When the field is already covered with scarecrows, a new one will have trouble finding a free spot and functioning properly. Rivaling nationalist and communist interpretations of Moldavian history have left little free space for an original view: historical facts have been interpreted and reinterpreted time and time again, so it has become increasingly difficult to create new meanings and to find fresh words.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 39 - 56
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Copyright © 1998 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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