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Vampire Nation

Violence as Cultural Imaginary

Autor: Tomislav Z. Longinovic

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Editura: Duke University Press

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Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing 'the serbs' as m...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Tomislav Z. Longinovic

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2011

Pagini

224

EAN

9780822350392

ISBN

0822350394

Enbook ID

04939386

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

332

Dimensiuni

157 x 235 x 13

Descriere completă

Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing 'the serbs' as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist discourses more broadly. Tomislav Z. Longinovic points to the Gothic associations of violence, blood, and soil in the writings of many intellectuals and politicians during the 1990s, especially in portrayals by the U.S.-led Western media of 'the serbs' as a vampire nation, a bloodsucking parasite on the edge of European civilization. Interpreting oral and written narratives and visual culture, Longinovic traces the early modern invention of 'the serbs' and the category's twentieth-century transformations. He describes the influence of Bram Stoker's nineteenth-century novel Dracula on perceptions of the Balkan region, and reflects on representations of hybrid identities and their violent destruction in the works of the region's most prominent twentieth-century writers. Concluding on a hopeful note, Longinovic considers efforts to imagine a new collective identity in non-nationalist terms. These endeavours include the emigrant Yugoslav writer David Albahari's Canadian Trilogy and Cyber Yugoslavia, a mock nation-state with "citizens" in more than thirty countries.