The Nonconformists
Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle, 1944-1991
Published on 20. September 2007
410 pages
978-615-5211-36-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 Cosic (a novelist), Mica Popovic (a painter) and Borislav Mihajlovic 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
File size
2,39 MB
ISBN-13
978-615-5211-36-2 (9786155211362)
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Nick Miller
The Nonconformists
Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle, 1944-1991
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09/2007
Central European University Press
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Nick Miller
The Nonconformists
Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle, 1944-1991
Book
09/2007
Central European University Press
€79.00
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Content
Preface Chapter 1 Simina 9a in a New Yugoslavia Chapter 2 Nonconformist Initiations Chapter 3 Cosic: Engagement and Disillusionment, 1956-1966 Chapter 4 Drama and Politics: Mihiz in the Sixties Chapter 5 The Suicide and Rebirth of the Painting: Mica Popovic, 1959-1974 Chapter 6 Fragmented Serbia Chapter 7 Cosic and Popovic Return To Serbia Chapter 8 From Principle to Catharsis Chapter 9 The Children of Cain Chapter 10 The Limits of Revelation Chapter 11 The Legend of Simina 9a in Serbia's Modern History Bibliography Illustrations Credits Index
