Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist discourses more broadly. Tomislav Z. Longinovi points to the Gothic associations of violence, blood, and soil in the writings of many intellectuals and politicians during the 1990s, especially in portrayals by the U.S.-led Western media of the serbs as a vampire nation, a bloodsucking parasite on the edge of European...

Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist discourses more broadly. Tomislav Z. Longinovi points to the Gothic associations of violence, blood, and soil in the writings of many intellectuals and politicians during the 1990s, especially in portrayals by the U.S.-led Western media of the serbs as a vampire nation, a bloodsucking parasite on the edge of European...