This text focuses on issues concerning identity in terms of Balkan and non-Balkan cultures, and examines questions of modernity and the fear of primitivism which is highlighted in certain types of narratives. The author also examines the emergence and development of the term "Balkan" itself.
This text focuses on issues concerning identity in terms of Balkan and non-Balkan cultures, and examines questions of modernity and the fear of primit...
Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of the past, re-remembering the cruelty of the twentieth century, reinterpreting the heroic role of the Partisans and the extraordinary measures taken to defend Yugoslavia s recently won independence and socialist revolution. Their uncanny and ghostly imagery challenges the assumptions of the master discourse promoted by the country s orthodox...
Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought b...
