“As Ernest Gellner put it, “Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist”.7” — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“This interpretation of the Phoenicians as a people has also informed recent literature on nationalism. One of most influential recent studies of communal identity in the ancient world is Anthony D. Smith’s magisterial Ethnic Origins of Nations (1986). Smith is… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“This interest in Elissa, as well as a more general identification with the Phoenician past, went well beyond state propaganda: the distance between Rome and Carthage is embraced in two novels by the francophone writer Fawzi Mellah, Le conclave des pleureuses (1987) and Elissa, la reine vagabonde (1988), which treat Elissa’s story from a variety of local perspectives, including the… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share
“A lack of evidence for collective identity is not evidence for its absence, especially when we have no surviving Phoenician literature and relatively little material evidence at all. Some would argue that the loss of the kind of literary sources in which Phoenicians would have more naturally expressed and explored larger communal identities gives us a false impression of their… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share
“As Ernest Gellner put it, “Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist”.7” — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“Whatever the contingent reasons in this particular colonial context for their specific self-conceptions, they remind us of the dangers of stamping ethnic labels on… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“Mine is not, however, so much an argument from silence as an argument for silence: a silence that can open up other spaces of… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“This interpretation of the Phoenicians as a people has also informed recent literature on nationalism. One of most influential recent studies of communal identity… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“Much recent scholarship has emphasized that nations are not a “natural” form of social organization, but a constructed one; in the words of Caspar… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
