Longinovic Vampire Nation

Violence as Cultural Imaginary
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9429-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten

Reihe: The Cultures and Practice of Violence

Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Longinovic, Tomislav Z.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Violence in Translation: The Vampire Metaphor in the Age of Nationalism 1

1. The Great Vampire Swindle: Global Cultural Imaginary and the Violence of 'the serbs' 19

2. Bloody Tales: Figurations of Masculinity in the Post-Oriental Condition 51

3. Sounds of Blood: Yugoslavism and Its Discontents 87

4. Locations of Horror: Bosnia in the Literary and Political Imaginary 119

5. Quieting the Vampire: Voicing Violence in the Post-Human Age 153

Notes 191

Bibliography 197

Index 203

Über Autor(innen)

Tomislav Z. Longinovic is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Vampires Like Us and Borderline Culture, as well as the novels Sama Amerika and Moment of Silence.