The Sacrificed Body - Balkan Community Building and the Fear of Freedom

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 collective identity. She employs cultural theory, sociological analysis, and human rights studies to expose a historical narrative that is predominant regionally, if not globally.

About the author

Tatjana Aleksic is associate professor of South Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

Summary

Tatjana Aleksic examines the widespread use of the sacrificial metaphor in cultural texts and its importance to sustaining communal ideologies in the Balkan region.

Product details

• Authors: Tatjana Aleksic
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2013
• EAN: 9780822962618
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6261-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies; Pitt Russian East European; Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies; Russian and East European Stud; Russian and East European Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries