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Balkan as metaphor : between globalization and fragmentation
- Title
- Balkan as metaphor : between globalization and fragmentation / edited by Dušan I. Bjelić and Obrad Savić.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DR48.6 .B3453 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 382 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- The sixteen authors apply the Western academic tools of postmodernism, poststructuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and critical multiculturalism to explore the idea of the Balkan as metaphor and the meaning of Balkan identity in the context of contemporary culture. [from publisher's advertisement].
- Subject
- Since 1989
- Geschichte 1989-2000
- Civilization
- Ethnic relations
- Politics and government
- Globalisierung
- Kulturkontakt
- Nationale identiteit
- Culturele identiteit
- Etnisch bewustzijn
- Balkan Peninsula > Politics and government > 1989-
- Balkan Peninsula > Ethnic relations
- Balkan Peninsula > Civilization
- Balkan Peninsula
- Südosteuropa
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Invention and in(ter)vention: the rhetoric of Balkanization / Vesna Goldsworthy -- Vampires like us: gothic imaginary and "the serbs" [sic] / Tomislav Z. Longinović -- What's so Byzantine about the Balkans? / Milica Bakić-Hayden -- The Balkans as an element in ideological mechanisms / Rastko Močnik -- Carl Schmitt on Kosovo, or, taking war seriously / Grigoris Ananiadis -- The dark intimacy: maps, identities, acts of identifications / Alexander Kiossev -- South Slav identity and the ultimate war-reality / Ugo Vlaisavljević -- The impossible escape: Romanians and the Balkans / Adrian Cioroianu -- The eros of identity / Ivaylo Ditchev -- Queer Serbs / Branka Arsić -- Sexualizing the Serb / Dušan I. Bjelić and Lucinda Cole -- Muslim women, Croatian women, Serbian women, Albanian women ... / Vesna Kesić -- Hypnosis and critique (film music for the Balkans) / Stathis Gourgouris -- Simonides on the Balkans / Petar Ramadanović.
- ISBN
- 0262025248
- 9780262025249
- 0262524481
- 9780262524483
- LCCN
- 2002024697
- OCLC
- ocm49226371
- 49226371
- SCSB-1264020
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library