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

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The Sacrificed Body Pitt Series in russian and east european Studies Jonathan Harris, Editor University of Pittsburgh Press The Sacrificed Body Balkan commUniTy BUilding and The fear of freedom TaTjana alekSić Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2013, University of Pittsburgh Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aleksić, Tatjana. The sacrificed body: Balkan community building and the fear of freedom / Tatjana Aleksić. pages cm. — (Pitt series in Russian and East European studies) ISBN 978-0-8229-6261-8 (pbk.) 1. Group identity—Balkan Peninsula. 2. Communities—Balkan Peninsula. 3. Communalism— Balkan Peninsula. I. Title. DR45.A44 2013 949.605—dc23 2013023782 For Dubravka I am inside a wall like Manole’s wife Ana Only that I am not Ana, and the one who walled me in Has never had a dream in his life. He enclosed me in a wall ready made, In his own defensive wall So that I would be neither inside his boundary Nor outside. He dreams only now at last And moves to release me from the dry stone, But he no longer knows where he walled me in. —Ileana Mâlâncioiu, Legend of the Walled-Up Wife ...