The nonconformists : culture, politics, and nationalism in a Serbian intellectual circle, 1944-1991 / Nick Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Nick, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosic, Dobrica, 1921---Criticism and interpretation.

Cosic, Dobrica.

Popović, Mića--Criticism and interpretation.

Popović, Mića.

Mihajlovic-Mihiz, Borislav, 1922---Criticism and interpretation.

Mihajlovic-Mihiz, Borislav.

Intellectuals--Serbia--History--20th century.

Intellectuals.

Serbia--Intellectual life--20th century.

Serbia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Serbia's national movement of the 1980s and 1990s, the author suggests, was not the product of an ancient, immutable, and aggressive Serbian national identity; nor was it an artificial creation of powerful political actors looking to capitalize on its mobilizing power. Miller argues that cultural processes are too often ignored in favor of political ones; that Serbian intellectuals did work within a historical context, but that they were not slaves to the past. His subjects are Dobrica Ćosić (a novelist), Mića Popović (a painter) and Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz (a literary critic). These three influential Serbian intellectuals concluded by the late 1960s that communism had failed the Serbian people; together, they helped forge a new Serbian identity that fused older cultural imagery with modern conditions.

Contents:

Simina 9a in a new Yugoslavia

Nonconformist initiations

Cosic : engagement and disillusionment, 1956-1966

Drama and politics: Mihiz in the sixties

The suicide and rebirth of the painting: Mica Popovic, 1959-1974

Fragmented Serbia

Cosic and Popovic return to Serbia

From principle to catharsis

The children of Cain

The limits of revelation

The legend of Simina 9a in Serbia's modern history.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-370) and index.

ISBN:

1-003-72284-9

978-6-15521-136-2

9786155211362

615-5211-36-1

2-8218-1508-5

1-281-37686-8

9786611376864

1-4294-9960-5

9781003722847

OCLC:

503439758

Publisher Number:

2027/heb09339 hdl