Balkan as Metaphor - Table of Contents

September 2002
7 x 9, 391 pp.
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ISBN-10:
0-262-02524-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-02524-9

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Balkan as Metaphor
Between Globalization and Fragmentation
Edited by Dušan I. Bjelic and Obrad Savic

	Foreword Michael Herzfeld Sample Chapter - Download PDF (38 KB)	ix

	Acknowledgments	xiii

	Introduction: Blowing Up the "Bridge" Dušan I. Bjelic Sample Chapter - Download PDF (116 KB)	1

Part I	*Orientalism, Balkanism, and Occidentalism*	23

1	Invention and In(ter)vention: The Rhetoric of Balkanization Vesna Goldsworthy	25

2	Vampires Like Us: Gothic Imaginary and "the serbs" Tomislav Z. Longinovic	39

3	What's So Byzantine About the Balkans? Milica Bakic-Hayden	61

4	The Balkans as an Element in Ideological Mechanisms Rastko Mocnik	79

5	Carl Schmitt on Kosovo, or, Taking War Seriously Grigoris Ananiadis	117

Part II	Balkan Identity and Nationality	163

6	The Dark Intimacy: Maps, Identities, Acts of Identifications Alexander Kiossev	165

7	South Slav Identity and the Ultimate War-Reality Ugo Vlaisavljevic	191

8	The Impossible Escape: Romanians and the Balkans Adrian Cioroianu	209

9	The Eros of Identity Ivaylo Ditchev	235

Part III	Sexuality, Trauma, and Myth	251

10	Queer Serbs Branka Arsic	253

11	Sexualizing the Serb Dušan I. Bjelic and Lucinda Cole	279

12	Muslim Women, Croatian Women, Serbian Women, Albanian Women... Vesna Kesic	311

13	Hypnosis and Critique (Film Music for the Balkans) Stathis Gourgouris	323

14	Simonides on the Balkans Petar Ramadanovic	351

	List of Contributors Sample Chapter - Download PDF (40 KB)	365

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (74 KB)	369

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