Making a nation, breaking a nation
literature and cultural politics in Yugoslavia
by Andrew Wachtel
This book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state. The author argues that the collapse of multinational Yugoslavia and the establishment of separate uninational states did not result from the breakdown of the political or economic fabric of the Yugoslav state; rather, that breakdown itself sprang from the destruction of the concept of a Yugoslav nation.
Had such a concept been retained, a collapse of political authority would have been followed by the eventual reconstitution of a Yugoslav state, as happened after World War II, instead of the creation of separate nation-states. In the book's conclusion, the author discusses the relevance of the Yugoslav case for other parts of the world, considering whether the triumph of particularist nationalism is inevitable in multinational states.
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Cultural policy, Ethnic relations, History, Language policy, Nationalism, Political aspects, Political aspects of Yugoslav literature, Yugoslav literature, Yugoslavia, politics and government, Nationalism, yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, social conditions, Yugoslav literature, history and criticismPlaces
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Making a nation, breaking a nation: literature and cultural politics in Yugoslavia
1998, Stanford University Press
in English
0804731802 9780804731805
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