Table of Contents

Introduction by Linda K. Fuller Countries Argentina: Argentine National Ways in Politics: Elites and Caudillism by Susan N. Vittadini Australia: The Bicentenary of Australia: Celebration of a Nation by Leanne White Canada: Canadian Days: Non-Canandian Ways by Derek Foster China: From National Day to National Way: The Story of October 1 by Chen Yanru National Image on Nation Day: The 50th National Day of the Peoples' Republic of China by Xu Xiaoge Ehtiopia: Holiday Celebrations Among the Highlanders of Ehtiopia by Tsegay Wolde-Georgis Ghana: Globalization and Broadcasting the Ghanian National Day by Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh Japan: Japan's National Foundation Day: Lack of Consensus Leads to Lack of Celebration by Stephen M. Ryan Kuwait: Kuwait: Four Decades of Transformed Celebrations by Nibal Bourisly and Maher Al-hajji New Zealand: Waitangi Day: New Zealnd's National Day by Parehau Richards and Chris Ryan Nigeria: Nationalism, Mass Media, and the Crisis of National Identity in Nigeria by Mohammed Musa and Ayo Oyeleye Norway: Norway's 17th of May: A Historical Date and a Day of National Celebrations by Knut Mykland Romania: The Romanian Way: From Nationalism to Privatism by Sorin Matei Singapore: REading Singapore's National Day: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Nationalism by Linda K. Fuller South Africa: (Re)building a Nation: South Africa's Heritage Day as a Site of Renaming, Reimaging, and Remembering by Scott M. Schonfeldt-Aultman and Gust A. Yep Spain: National Days Throughout the History and Geography of Spain by Ignacio Molina Alvares de Cienfuegos and Jorge Martinez Barcena Turkey: Nation and Celebration: The Iconology of the Turkish Republic by Halil Nalcaoglu Ukraine: In Search of National Holidays Ukraine's Case by Natalia Kostenko, Tatyana Androsenko and Ludmila Males United States: Martin Luther King Day: A Day in Rememberance of the American Architect of the Beloved Community by Texeira Nash and Irelene Ricks Appendix A: National Holiday Celebrations Appendix B: International Calendar of Celebrations Bibliography Index

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A team of unique contributors describes the internal and external repercussions of holidays and celebrations in more than a dozen countries.

About the Author

LINDA K. FULLER, Ph.D., is Professor of Communications at Worcester State College. She is the author/(co-) editor of more than 20 books, including The Cosby Show (1992), Community TV in the U.S. (1994), and Dictionary of Quotations in Communications (1997). Awarded Fulbright scholarships to teach in Singapore in 1996 and do AIDS research Senegal in 2002, she has also been a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University.