The Balkan Code
A Scandal in Culture
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Beschreibung
'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), linguistic violence (the case of Macedonian/Slavic toponyms), violent civilization, female fidelity (Penelope's cult), sacrifice (the story of Abraham), matrix of the Blackness ('black God, black Arab'), transformation (Proteus), and 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.
Ursprungsland: DE
Zolltarifnummer: 49019900
Autor*in
Katica Kulavkova
Themen in »The Balkan Code«
Balkans Cultural Anthropology Cultural Studies Culture Literature Macedonia Myths Sociology of Culture