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050 00 $aDR24.5$b.N67 1999
100 1 $aNorris, David A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91043615
245 10 $aIn the wake of the Balkan myth :$bquestions of identity and modernity /$cDavid A. Norris.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c1999.
263 $a9904
300 $a182 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tConstructing the Balkans.$tA Very Balkan Tale.$tFrom a Geographic Term to a Cultural Sign --$g2.$tTextual Representations.$tEstablishing Ambiguities.$tThe Noble Savage.$tTwentieth-Century Representations.$tThe Anxiety Effect --$g3.$tThe Balkans Talk Back.$tThe Drama of Human Misunderstanding?$tMilos Crnjanski: The Poetics of Exile.$tIvo Andric: The Silence of the East.$tSlobodan Selenic: Cultural Difference Inside and Outside --$g4.$tModernity: Urban Culture and the Balkans.$tCity Literature in the West.$tUrban Culture in the Balkans.$tBelgrade.$tUrban Anxieties --$g5.$tRepresentations of City Life.$tBorisav Stankovic: The Death of the Oriental City.$tThe Rise and Fall of Metropolitan Literature.$tSvetlana Velmar-Jankovic: Belgrade Re-Presented --$g6.$tDiscourses of Identity and Modernity in Times of Crisis.$tVladimir Arsenijevic: War by TV.$tSlobodan Selenic: The Primal Struggle.$tEmir Kusturica: The Great Betrayal.
520 1 $a"The book opens and closes with the wars in former Yugoslavia, giving a different slant to the crisis in its study of novels and cinema from the region. The West has constructed the Balkans as a primitive space and has simplified its historical and geographical complexities into the narrow horizons of myth. This process of cultural colonialism, begun over 150 years ago, can be traced right up to recent mass media reports about recent conflicts in former Yugoslavia.
520 8 $aSuch negative views have produced anxieties about issues of identity in the region, and many writers describe the collision of cultures as foreigners arrive from an outside world which is self-consciously superior and blind to local realities. Their fears lead to more dramatic stories of the total destruction of civilization and a return to an atavistic, pre-modern state which is the epitome of the Balkan myth itself.
520 8 $aNow here is this apocalyptic vision more prevalent than in new writing and film about the wars of the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, Balkan$xHistoriography.
651 0 $aBalkan Peninsula$xHistory$y19th century$xHistoriography.
651 0 $aBalkan Peninsula$xHistory$y20th century$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aYugoslav literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008124426
650 0 $aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xLiterature and the war.
852 00 $bglx$hDR24.5$i.N67 1999