After Yugoslavia The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land

Name: After Yugoslavia The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land
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ISBN: 9780804784023

ISBN-10: 0804784027

ISBN-13: 9780804784023

Edition: 2013

Authors: Radmila Gorup

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The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of the contributions can be seen as current attempts to make sense of the past and help cultures in transition, as well as to report on them.The volume is a mixture of personal essays and scholarly articles and that combination of genres makes the book both moving and informative. Its importance is unique. While many studies dwell on the causes of the demise of Yugoslavia, this collection touches upon…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 6/12/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Contributors


Acknowledgments


Notes on the Pronunciation of Proper Names and Words Given in Original Spelling


Introduction




My Yugoslavia: Personal Essays



My Yugoslavia




Yugoslavia: A Defeated Argument?




Histories and Common Culture



The Past as Future: Post-Yugoslav Space in the Early Twenty-First Century




What Common Yugoslav Culture Was, and How Everybody Benefited from It




Discordia Concors: Central Europe in Post-Yugoslav Discourses




Legacies of Yugoslavia: Cultural Returns



"Something Has Survived …": Ambivalence in the Discourse About Socialist Yugoslavia in Present-Day Slovenia




Vibrant Commonalities and the Yugoslav Legacy: A Few Remarks




Zenit Rising: Return to a Balkan Avant-Garde




The Story of a Language



Post-Yugoslav Emergence and the Creation of Difference




What Happened to Serbo-Croatian?




Language Imprisoned by Identities; or, Why Language Should Be Defended




Post-Film



The Vibrant Cinemas in the Post-Yugoslav Space




Marking the Trail: Balkan Women Filmmakers and the Transnational Imaginary




The New National Literatures



Traumatic Experiences: War Literature in Bosnia and Herzegovina Since the 1990s




Culture of Memory or Cultural Amnesia: The Uses of the Past in the Contemporary Croatian Novel




Cheesecakes and Bestsellers: Contemporary Serbian Literature and the Scandal of Transition




Slovene Literature Since 1990




The Palimpsests of Nostalgia




Return to the Provinces



The Spirit of the Kakanian Province



Notes


Index