Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Belgrade
  • Serbia's position in European geopolitical imaginings
  • Highlanders and lowlanders
  • Tender-hearted criminals and the reverse Pygmalion
  • Serbian jeremiads : too much character, too little kultur
  • Glorious pasts and imagined continuities : the most ancient people
  • Narrative cycles : from Kosovo to Jadovno
  • "The wish to be a Jew," or, The power of the Jewish trope
  • Garbled genres : conspiracy theories, everyday life, and the poetics of opacity
  • Mille vs. transition : a super informant in the slushy swamp of Serbian politics
  • Conclusion: Chrono-tropes and awakenings
  • Filmography.