"Transborder Nationalism: the preparation of the Catholic Czechs in the USA for the participation into the Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague in 1895"
2014
Abstract
The article explores the preparations of the American Catholic Czechs for participation into the Ethnographic exhibition in Prague in 1895. More precisely, it assesses their reflections of this event on the pages of the Czech periodicals in the USA.
My intention is to present this transatlantic cultural event from several perspectives - as an expression of the cultural and material progress of Czech Catholics in the USA and of their religious identity, as a symbolic encounter of their new and old homeland and, last but not least, as a demonstration of the Czech transborder nationalism in the USA.