In the Wake of the Balkan Myth Questions of Identity and Modernity
This book focuses on issues concerning identity in terms of Balkan and non-Balkan cultures, and examines questions of modernity and the ever-present dread of primitivism which is highlighted in certain types of narratives. David A. Norris examines the eme
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TEACH YOURSELF SERBO-CROAT THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI: An Approach through Time
In the Wake of the Balkan Myth Questions of Identity and Modernity David A. Norris Senior Lecturer Department of Slal'onic Studie.l' Uni1•er.1'ity of Nottin~ham
ISBN 978-1-349-99983-5 DOI 10.1057/9780230286535
ISBN 978-0-230-28653-5 (eBook)
First published in Great Britain 1999 by
MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-0-333-75168-8 First published in the United States of America 1999 by
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-22175-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Norris, David A. In the wake of the Balkan myth : questions of identity and modernity I David A. Norris. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-22175-1 (cloth) I. National characteristics, Balkan-Historiography. 2. Balkan Peninsula-History-I 9th century-Historiography. 3. Balkan Peninsula-History-20th century-Historiography. 4. Yugoslav literature-20th century-History and criticism. 5. Yugoslav War, 1991-1995-Literature and the war. I. Title. DR24.5.N67 1999 949.6'0072-dc21 99-11217 CIP © David A. Norris 1999
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Contents List of Maps and Plates
VII
Preface
Vlll
Acknowledgements
xi
Pronunciation Guide 1
XII
Constructing the Balkans A Very Balkan Tale From a Geographic Term to a Cultural Sign
1 1 4
2
Textual Representations Establishing Ambiguities The Noble Savage Twentieth-Century Representations The Anxiety Effect
15 15 23 32 38
3
The Balkans Talk Back The Drama of Human Misunderstanding? Milos Crnjanski: The Poetics of Exile lvo Andric: The Silence of the East Slobodan Selenic: Cultural Difference Inside and Outside
46 46 49 59 68
4
Modernity: Urban Culture and the Balkans City Literature in the West Urban Culture in the Balkans Belgrade Urban Anxieties
80 80 88 96 103
5
Representations of City Life Borisav Stankovic: The De
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