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@article{ Tzanelli2008,
title = {The nation has two `voices'},
author = {Tzanelli, Rodanthi},
journal = {European Journal of Cultural Studies},
number = {4},
pages = {489-508},
volume = {11},
year = {2008},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549408094984},
urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227649},
abstract = {This article explores the contemporary conditions of national self-presentation, inviting students of national identity to reconsider the nature of national self-narration through new conceptual tools. It is argued that contemporary nations have two `voices': one is addressed to their members, another speaks to the nation's external interlocutors. Both voices contribute to the performance of identity: for nations which are the product of colonial and `crypto-colonial' encounters, narration is characterized by a negotiation of the boundaries between private and public voices and slippage in utterance. The article introduces a new concept in the study of culture, `diforia', which accounts for both this split meaning of utterance and national performativity in public. The concept is mobilized to examine and deconstruct a recent case of Greek diforia enacted in the context of the opening and closing ceremonies of Athens 2004.},
}