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In the Wake of the Balkan Myth: Questions of Identity and Modernity

By David A. Norris

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1999
ISBN
0312221754, 9780312221751
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12495060 bytes)
Pages
198\205
Time added
2016-10-09 23:34:13
Europe;Belgium;France;Germany;Great Britain;Greenl

Description

The West has constructed the Balkans as a primitive space and simplified its historical and geographical realities, including journalists' accounts of recent wars in Bosnia. Based largely on translated works, this book tells how writers from former Yugoslavia have confronted this negative narrative in their novels and film. Their fictional worlds reveal an underlying fear of a return to a wild, pre-modern state. Recent crises in the region have generated apocalyptic visions of Balkan primitivism and made a myth into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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