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The Nonconformists: Dobrica Cosic And Mica Popovic Reinvision Serbia, Nick Miller
The Nonconformists: Dobrica Cosic And Mica Popovic Reinvision Serbia, Nick Miller
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
There is little to debate about the nature of Serbian political life since the mid-1980s-it has been highly nationalized, to the point that one can argue that a consensus existed among Serbian public figures that the Serbs' very existence was threatened by their neighbors. This consensus links political, cultural, and intellectual elites regardless of their ideological background. It draws together figures representing great diversity in Serbia. This powerful movement has usually been either dismissed or demonized: dismissed as superficial, the product of the cynical adaptation of politicians to new times, or demonized as something inherent in Serbian political culture, a …
A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman
A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
For the past few days in Harpers Ferry we have been inventing and reinventing American nationalism in a marvelous variegation of scholarly papers. We have heard about nationalism and travel, nationalism and antislavery women, nationalism and male identity--and southern artisans, and black nationalists, and even luxury hotels. Although we try to put ironic distance between ourselves and the more egregious forms of nationalism, the papers seem to share the popular fascination with American identity. We cannot resist staring into history and asking who we are as a nation, how did we come to be so wonderful, and why have we …