Balkans and the West: Constructing the European Other, 1945-2003 FROM THE PUBLISHER
This collection of essays locates, investigates and challenges the manner in which the Balkans and the West have constructed each other since 1945. Scholars from the two sections of the continent explore a wide range of fiction, film, journalism, travel writing and diplomatic records both to analyse Western European balkanism and to study Balkan representations of the West over the last fifty years.
SYNOPSIS
In 15 essays from an April 2001 conference in Warwick, Britain, social scientists from eastern and western Europe explore the West's ambivalent attitude towards the Balkans as both part of Europe and as an alien element within it. Focusing on Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and the countries of the former Yugoslavia, they explore such dimensions as Britain and the Yugoslav general election of 1945, Cold War representations of development in the Balkans, travel literature in Caeusescu's Romania, images of the West in Serbian and Croatian prose fiction from 1945 to 1995, savage tribes and mystic feuds in the Western foreign policy statement on Bosnia in the early 1990s, and NATO bombing and the Serbian cinema. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Home
