Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film: Fires, Foundations, Flourishes

by Gordana P. Crnković

Book Overview

The 1990s violence in the Former Yugoslavia, the worst in Europe since World War II, triggered the conversion of multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and cosmopolitan areas of idiosyncratic and independent socialism into regions of xenophobic nationalism, wars, and, afterwards, Western-style democracy and capitalism. Unified by their artistic response to these cataclysmic changes, post-Yugoslav literary works and films have much to offer the wider world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628926597
• ISBN13: 9781628926590
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"