Serbian dreambook
Subtitle: national imaginary in the time of Milošević
By: Marko Živković
Series: New anthropologies of Europe; New anthropologies of Europe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780253356239; 9780253223067
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Political culture; Popular culture; Influence; Imagination; Serbian National characteristics; Narration (Rhetoric); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Belgrade; title: Serbia's position in European geopolitical imaginings; title: Highlanders and lowlanders; title: Tender-hearted criminals and the reverse Pygmalion; title: Serbian jeremiads : too much character, too little kultur; title: Glorious pasts and imagined continuities : the most ancient people; title: Narrative cycles : from Kosovo to Jadovno; title: "The wish to be a Jew," or, The power of the Jewish trope; title: Garbled genres : conspiracy theories, everyday life, and the poetics of opacity; title: Mille vs. transition : a super informant in the slushy swamp of Serbian politics; title: Conclusion: Chrono-tropes and awakenings; title: Filmography.