Serbian long-distance nationalism and identity in the wake of the Third Balkan War
First Statement of Responsibility
Birgit Bock-Luna.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Lit Verlag
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
254 pages ; 23 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Forum europäische Ethnologie, Bd. 9.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
pt. I. Identity in Exile --; Ch. 1. Being Serbian in the United States --; Ch. 2. The Unmaking of the Yugoslavs --; Ch. 3. Creating one Voice: the Serbian Unity Congress --; pt. II. Living in the Past: The Role of the Second World War --; Ch. 4. Remembering War and Displacement --; Ch. 5. The Architecture of Memory --; pt. III. Conspiracy theories, future visions, and the International Community --; Ch. 6. Conspiracies in the age of globalization --; Ch. 7. Imagining the Future in the Light of a Violent Past --; Ch. 8. Conclusion.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"In this study of identity politics, memory and long-distance nationalism among Serbian migrants in California, the author examines the complicated ways in which visions of the past are used to form Diaspora subjects and make claims to the homeland in the present. Drawing on extended fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area community, she shows how the Yugoslav wars generated a revaluation Serbian history and personal life stories, resulting in the strengthening of ethnic identity. Nevertheless, strategies for dealing with rupture and change also included contestation of exile nationalism."--Jacket.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Serbian Americans -- California -- Ethnic identity.