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• catalog abstract ""The book opens and closes with the wars in former Yugoslavia, giving a different slant to the crisis in its study of novels and cinema from the region. The West has constructed the Balkans as a primitive space and has simplified its historical and geographical complexities into the narrow horizons of myth. This process of cultural colonialism, begun over 150 years ago, can be traced right up to recent mass media reports about recent conflicts in former Yugoslavia. Such negative views have produced anxieties about issues of identity in the region, and many writers describe the collision of cultures as foreigners arrive from an outside world which is self-consciously superior and blind to local realities. Their fears lead to more dramatic stories of the total destruction of civilization and a return to an atavistic, pre-modern state which is the epitome of the Balkan myth itself. Now here is this apocalyptic vision more prevalent than in new writing and film about the wars of the 1990s."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11203319.
• catalog coverage "Balkan Peninsula History 19th century Historiography.".
• catalog coverage "Balkan Peninsula History 20th century Historiography.".
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description ""The book opens and closes with the wars in former Yugoslavia, giving a different slant to the crisis in its study of novels and cinema from the region. The West has constructed the Balkans as a primitive space and has simplified its historical and geographical complexities into the narrow horizons of myth. This process of cultural colonialism, begun over 150 years ago, can be traced right up to recent mass media reports about recent conflicts in former Yugoslavia. Such negative views have produced anxieties about issues of identity in the region, and many writers describe the collision of cultures as foreigners arrive from an outside world which is self-consciously superior and blind to local realities.".
• catalog description "1 Constructing the Balkans 1 -- 2 Textual Representations 15 -- 3 The Balkans Talk Back 46 -- 4 Modernity: Urban Culture and the Balkans 80 -- 5 Representations of City Life 108 -- 6 Discourses of Identity and Modernity in Times of Crisis 136.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Their fears lead to more dramatic stories of the total destruction of civilization and a return to an atavistic, pre-modern state which is the epitome of the Balkan myth itself. Now here is this apocalyptic vision more prevalent than in new writing and film about the wars of the 1990s."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xii, 182 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0312221754 (St. Martin's)".
• catalog identifier "033375168X (MacMillan)".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Basingstoke : MacMillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press,".
• catalog spatial "Balkan Peninsula History 19th century Historiography.".
• catalog spatial "Balkan Peninsula History 20th century Historiography.".
• catalog subject "949.6/0072 21".
• catalog subject "DR24.5 .N67 1999".
• catalog subject "National characteristics, Balkan Historiography.".
• catalog subject "Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Literature and the war.".
• catalog subject "Yugoslav literature 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1 Constructing the Balkans 1 -- 2 Textual Representations 15 -- 3 The Balkans Talk Back 46 -- 4 Modernity: Urban Culture and the Balkans 80 -- 5 Representations of City Life 108 -- 6 Discourses of Identity and Modernity in Times of Crisis 136.".
• catalog title "In the wake of the Balkan myth : questions of identity and modernity / David A. Norris.".
• catalog type "text".