Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milosevi

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The central role that the regime of Slobodan Miloševi played inthe bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia is well known, but Marko Živkovi explores another side of this time period: the stories people in Serbia were tellingthemselves (and others) about themselves. Živkovi traces the recurringthemes, scripts, and narratives that permeated public discourse in Miloševi 'sSerbia, as Serbs described themselves as Gypsies or Jews, violent highlanders orpeaceful lowlanders, and invoked their own mythologized defeat at the Battle ofKosovo. The author investigates national narratives, the use of tradition forpolitical purposes, and local idioms, paying special attention to the often bizarreand outlandish tropes people employed to make sense of their social reality. Hesuggests that the enchantments of political life under Miloševi may befruitfully seen as a dreambook of Serbian national imaginary.