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Serbian dreambook : national imaginary in the time of Milošević / Marko Živković.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Živković, Marko.
- Series:
- New anthropologies of Europe.
- New anthropologies of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Serbian--History--20th century.
- National characteristics, Serbian.
- Imagination--Social aspects--Serbia--History--20th century.
- Imagination.
- Imagination--Political aspects--Serbia--History--20th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects--Serbia--History--20th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--Serbia--History--20th century.
- Popular culture--Serbia--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Political culture--Serbia--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Serbia--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Serbia.
- Serbia--Politics and government--1992-2006.
- Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006--Influence.
- Milošević, Slobodan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : illustrations, portrait
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington [Ind.] : Indiana University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The central role that the regime of Slobodan Milo?eviÄ? played in the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia is well known, but Marko ?ivkoviÄ? explores another side of this time period: the stories people in Serbia were telling themselves (and others) about themselves. ?ivkoviÄ? traces the recurring themes, scripts, and narratives that permeated public discourse in Milo?eviÄ?'s Serbia, as Serbs described themselves as Gypsies or Jews, violent highlanders or peaceful lowlanders, and invoked their own mythologized defeat at the Battle of Kosovo. The author investigates national narratives, the use of tradition for political purposes, and local idioms, paying special attention to the often bizarre and outlandish tropes people employed to make sense of their social reality. He suggests that the enchantments of political life under Milo?eviÄ? may be fruitfully seen as a dreambook of Serbian national imaginary.
- Contents:
- Belgrade
- Serbia's position in European geopolitical imaginings
- Highlanders and lowlanders
- Tender-hearted criminals and the reverse Pygmalion
- Serbian jeremiads : too much character, too little kultur
- Glorious pasts and imagined continuities : the most ancient people
- Narrative cycles : from Kosovo to Jadovno
- "The wish to be a Jew," or, The power of the Jewish trope
- Garbled genres : conspiracy theories, everyday life, and the poetics of opacity
- Mille vs. transition : a super informant in the slushy swamp of Serbian politics
- Conclusion: Chrono-tropes and awakenings
- Filmography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-23587-0
- 9786613235879
- 0-253-00174-9
- OCLC:
- 747411076
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