Balkan as metaphor : between globalization and fragmentation /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 382 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnic relations. Politics and government Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 1989- Balkan Peninsula -- Ethnic relations. Balkan Peninsula. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11118963

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Other authors / contributors:	Bjelić, Dušan I. Savić, Obrad.
ISBN:	9780262268592 0262268590 0585445982 9780585445984
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used pejoratively to refer to excessive specialization and nostalgically to refer to Europe's lost people--its wild warriors and passionate geniuses. This book explores the idea of the Balkan as metaphor and the meaning of Balkan identity in the context of contemporary culture. Focusing on Balkanism both as a body of knowledge and as the critical study of that discourse, this book does for the Balkans what Edward Said's Orientalism did for "the Orient."The sixteen authors, most of whom were born and educated in the Balkans, apply the Western academic tools of postmodernism, poststructuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and critical multiculturalism to topics as varied as the rhetoric of Balkanization, the war in Kosovo, Western demonization and erotization of the Serbs, Balkan film, human rights legislation, Byzantinism, the vampire as an image of Balkan violence, envy of the political and moral capital of victimhood, the tendency of the Balkan psyche toward depression, Serbian machismo and homosexuality, and wartime rape. The book both lays the groundwork for a new field of study and serves as an act of resistance against the many forms of representation that break the Balkans into fragments such as NATO army bases and digital maps in order to wire them into the global market.
Other form:	Print version: Balkan as metaphor. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002 0262025248

Table of 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.

Balkan as metaphor : between globalization and fragmentation /

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