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Vampire Nation : Violence as Cultural Imaginary
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Longinovic, Tomislav Z.
- Longinoviâc, Toma, Author.
- Series:
- The Cultures and Practice of Violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Ethnic identity--Serbia--Folklore.
- Nationalism.
- Serbs.
- National characteristics, Serbian.
- Vampires.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Great Vampire Swindle: Global Cultural Imaginary and the Violence of 'the serbs'; 2. Bloody Tales: Figurations of Masculinity in the Post-Oriental Condition; 3. Sounds of Blood: Yugoslavism and Its Discontents; 4. Locations of Horror: Bosnia in the Literary and Political Imaginary; 5. Quieting the Vampire: Voicing Violence in the Post-Human Age; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613252326
- 9781283252324
- 1283252325
- 9780822394297
- 0822394294
- OCLC:
- 752862237
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