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Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation
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Title: Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation
Author: Dusan I Bjelic
ISBN: 0262025248
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 350
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used perjoratively to refer to excessive specialization and nostalgically to refer to Europe's lost people - its wild warriors and passionate geniuses. This book explores the idea of the Balkan as metaphor and the meaning of Balkan identity in the context of contemporary culture. Focusing on Balkanism both as a body of knowledge and as the critical study of that discourse, this book does for the Balkans what Edward Said's Orientalism did for the Orient.
Author: Dusan I Bjelic
ISBN: 0262025248
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 350
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used perjoratively to refer to excessive specialization and nostalgically to refer to Europe's lost people - its wild warriors and passionate geniuses. This book explores the idea of the Balkan as metaphor and the meaning of Balkan identity in the context of contemporary culture. Focusing on Balkanism both as a body of knowledge and as the critical study of that discourse, this book does for the Balkans what Edward Said's Orientalism did for the Orient.
