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After Yugoslavia: The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land

Radmila Gorup

Abstract

More than twenty years have passed since the disintegration of Yugoslavia, a multiethnic country that did not establish nation-states like most of Europe but opted for a confederation. In the 1990s, when the European Union was consolidating and expanding, Yugoslavia was fast dissolving. Scholarship treating the disintegration of Yugoslavia has overlooked the cultural dimension of its collapse. This volume fills that gap by bringing together leading writers and scholars to focus specifically on the dynamics of post-Yugoslav cultural transition. The authors touch upon the topic of dissolution of ... More

Keywords: disintegration of Yugoslavia, cultural dimension of state collapse, post-Yugoslav cultural transition, Yugoslav legacies

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780804784023
Published to Stanford Scholarship Online: September 2013 DOI:10.11126/stanford/9780804784023.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Radmila Gorup, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Contributors

Acknowledgments

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

Introduction

Marijeta Božović

Part I My Yugoslavia: Personal Essays

1 My Yugoslavia

Maria Todorova

2 Yugoslavia A Defeated Argument?

Vesna Goldsworthy

Part II Histories and Common Culture

3 The Past as Future

Dejan Djokicć

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

Zoran Milutinović

5 Discordia Concors

Vladimir Zorić

Part III Legacies of Yugoslavia: Cultural Returns

6 “Something Has Survived …”

Mitja Velikonja

7 Vibrant Commonalities and the Yugoslav Legacy

Gordana P. Crnković

8 Zenit Rising

Marijeta Božovicć

Part IV The Story of a Language

9 Post-Yugoslav Emergence and the Creation of Difference

Tomislav Z. Longinović

10 What Happened to Serbo-Croatian?

Ranko Bugarski

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

Milorad Pupovac

Part V Post-Film

12 The Vibrant Cinemas The Vibrant Cinemas

Andrew Horton

13 Marking the Trail

Meta Mazaj

Part VI The New National Literatures

14 Traumatic Experiences

Davor Beganović

15 Culture of Memory or Cultural Amnesia

Andrea Zlatar-Violić

16 Cheesecakes and Bestsellers

Tatjana Rosić

17 Slovene Literature Since 1990

Alojzija Zupan Sosič

18 The Palimpsests of Nostalgia

Venko Andonovski

Part VII Return to the Provinces

19 The Spirit of the Kakanian Province

Dubravka Ugrešić

End Matter

Index