In this Book
- The Nonconformists: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle, 1944-1991
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Central European University Press
summary
Serbia's national movement of the 1980s and 1990s, the author suggests, was not the product of an ancient, immutable, and aggressive Serbian national identity; nor was it an artificial creation of powerful political actors looking to capitalize on its mobilizing power. Miller argues that cultural processes are too often ignored in favor of political ones; that Serbian intellectuals did work within a historical context, but that they were not slaves to the past. His subjects are Dobrica Ćosić (a novelist), Mića Popović (a painter) and Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz (a literary critic). These three influential Serbian intellectuals concluded by the late 1960s that communism had failed the Serbian people; together, they helped forge a new Serbian identity that fused older cultural imagery with modern conditions.
Table of Contents
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- Chapter 2: Nonconformist Initiations
- pp. 39-82
- Chapter 6: Fragmented Serbia
- pp. 177-214
- Chapter 8: From Principle to Catharsis
- pp. 241-284
- Chapter 9: The Children of Cain
- pp. 285-308
- Chapter 10: The Limits of Revelation
- pp. 309-346
- Bibliography
- pp. 363-370
- Illustration Credits
- pp. 371-372
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155211362
Related ISBN(s)
9789637326936, 9789639776135
MARC Record
OCLC
503439758
Pages
410
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No