The Balkan Code: A Scandal in Culture

By Katica Kulavkova

The Balkan Code deconstructs cultural stereotypes, mystifications & scandalous sites of memory. Katica Kulavkova analyses cases with mythological, epic, folkloric, literary, ideological, or political backgrounds - such as: violence (Odysseus heroism), female fidelity (Penelope's cult), sacrifice (the story of Abraham), matrix of the Blackness ( black God, black Arab ), transformation (Proteus), or carnevalization (Macedonian multiethnic practices).
The skeptical but illuminating and original interpretation of The Balkan Code shows the other side, not only of the Balkans, but also of Europe. It demonstrates that negative cultural stereotypes, elevated to a discourse of power, develop the power to change the world for worse. And vice versa.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3837630250
• ISBN13: 9783837630251
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Transcript Publishing