Vampire Nation - Violence As Cultural Imaginary

Informationen zum Autor Tomislav Z. Longinovi¿ 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

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• Authors: Toma Longinovic, Tomaslav Longinovic, Tomislav Z Longinovic, Tomislav Z. Longinovic, Tomislav Z./ Whitehead Longinovic, LONGINOVIC TOMISLAV Z
• Assisted by: Neil L. Whitehead (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2011
• EAN: 9780822350224
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5022-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole; The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies