The sacrificed body : Balkan community building and the fear of freedom /

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"Tatjana Aleksic examines the widespread use of the sacrificial metaphor in cultural texts and its importance to sustaining communal ideologies in the Balkan region. Aleksic further relates the theme to the sanctioning of ethnic cleansing, rape, and murder in the name of homogeneity and collect...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Aleksić, Tatjana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
©2013
Series:Series in Russian and East European studies.
Subjects:
Communalism > Balkan Peninsula.
Communities > Balkan Peninsula.
Group identity > Balkan Peninsula.
Communalisme > Balkans.
Communauté > Balkans.
Identité collective > Balkans.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
HISTORY > Europe > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Eastern.
Communalism
Communities
Group identity
Balkan Peninsula
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Legendary Roots of Community Construction
  • Chapter 1: Community, Power, and the Body
  • Chapter 2: A Failed Dream of a Balkan Community
  • Chapter 3: The Greek National Identity as the Fatherâ€?s Testament
  • Chapter 4: The Yugoslav Cadavre Exquis: The Return of the Repressive
  • Chapter 5: Demystifying the Sacrificial Imperative of History
  • Conclusion: Community, Communalism, Communism
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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